3 – M5542
Description
Chinese imperial porcelain green dragon dish, pan, with gently flared rim, the design outlined in underglaze blue, painted in the centre with a five-clawed dragon in green glaze, in pursuit of a flaming pearl amongst stylised flames and ruyi-clouds within a double line, encircled by two further similar dragons, the underside similarly decorated, with the dragons above a lappet band.
The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.
9 ¾ inches, 24.7 cm diameter.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of the famous Japanese artist Insho Domoto (1891-1975), and thence by direct descent.
- Sold by Shizuki Hata, Kobe, Japan, and still wrapped in sheets of the Asahi Shinbun newspaper dating from 1938.
- Another, donated by Wu Qingyi, is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, 157, pp. 242/3, and by Titus M. Eliëns in the Gemeente Museum, The Hague Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum, 2011, no. 30, p. 55, with a mark probably written by the same hand; another was sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part One, Ming and Qing Porcelain, 25th November 1980, lot 155, and again by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics, 14th November 1989, lot 278; illustrated by Michel Beurdeley and Guy Raindre in Qing Porcelain, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, New York, 1987, no. 100, p. 72.
- No other creature is more associated with China than the dragon, where it carries positive
The five-clawed dragon symbolises the emperor.
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