A RARE CHINESE DOUCAI CUP STAND

C.1720

With a shallow body and slightly raised rim, the centre decorated with two sinuous chilong contained within simple circular bands, one painted in iron-red, the other in yellow enamel, with their hair picked out in green, each with a bifurcated tail and holding a lingzhi branch in its mouth, the base with a paper label inscribed P B Sale 2942, Chien Lung dragon plate, item 108, 11.28.69, 19.3cm.

Provenance: formerly in the collection of Sarah Jamison Messmore; then in the collection of Justice Ralph M Holman (1914-2013); Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc, 28th November 1969, item 108.