A yellow-glazed incised dragon bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735). Photo Christie's Image 2003

The exterior finely incised with two dragons racing through scrolling tendrils of lotus blossoms in pursuit of flaming pearls above a band of conjoined ruyi heads, between double line borders above and encircling the foot below, all under a glaze of soft lemon-yellow tone, the interior glazed white - 5¾in. (14.7cm.) diam.  Lot 361. Estimate $15,000 - $20,000. Price Realized $17,925 

Provenance: Stephen Junkunc III. 

Notes: A very similar bowl is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, no. A449 and again in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 258. 

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza