Asian Art Day One - 19th May 2010

Lot 72

A Chinese blue and white large saucer dish

Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £2200

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Description

A Chinese blue and white large saucer dish, with a channel footrim, painted with two scaly four-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl, all reversed in white on a blue wash ground, the reverse with Buddhist emblems, an artemesia leaf mark, Kangxi 1662-1722, rim chips, 34cm dia. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from S. Marchant & Son, London.