Fine Asian Art - 20th May 2025

Lot 126

A RARE CHINESE GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISH

Estimate £15,000 - £25,000 | Hammer £18900

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Description

A RARE CHINESE GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISH
SIX-CHARACTER KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1662-1722

With shallow rounded sides raised on a slightly tapering foot, painted in green enamel within underglaze blue outlines, with a scaly five-clawed dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl amidst flames, the reverse with a pair of further dragons striding amongst flames, 21.2cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, London, previously Sotheby's Hong Kong, 24th November 1987, lot 226, a copy of the invoice is available.

Cf. Keramik Museum Princeshoff, accession no. NO 01122 for a closely related dish. See also Sotheby's, The Pilkington Collection, 6th April 2016, lot 52 for another similar dish.

清康熙 綠彩趕珠龍紋盤
來源：香港蘇富比1987年11月24日·編號126，之後英國倫敦私人收藏（付發票復印件）。