the slender baluster body rising from a recessed base to a rounded shoulder and short narrow neck with everted rim, incised and brightly enamelled in green with a four-clawed dragon pursuing a flaming pearl. 

Provenance: Collection of Constantin von Hanneken (1854-1925) and thence by descent.

Exhibited: This vase may have been exhibited in the Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, in 1930 (possibly no.32. on an unpublished listing).

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, London, 07 november 2018, 10.30 AM