A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZE-RED 'DRAGON AND TIGER' TIANQIUPING

QIANLONG 1736-95

With an ovoid body and a tall cylindrical neck, painted with a tiger crouching on his forepaws with a curling tail, the feline looks up at a red dragon emerging from clouds and wisps of fire, all in a mountainous landscape with two pine trees near the water's edge, 37cm.

Provenance: from the collection of W W Winkworth Esq., then purchased from Sotheby's London on 12th December 1972, lot 113, and later purchased from Bluett & Sons Ltd. on 25th June 1973 for £2.950.

Cf. M Butler, M Medley and S Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, p.198, no.138 for a blue and white and underglaze red vase with the same subject matter..