Lot 17. A matched pair of blue-glazed bowls, 17th century; 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam. Estimate GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000. Price realised GBP 4,541. © Christie's Images Ltd 2004

With wide flaring sides rising from short, slightly tapering feet, each freely incised in the interior with two four-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit around a flaming pearl, covered overall in a thin cobalt blue glaze below the brown-glazed rims and stopping neatly around the brown-dressed feet and bases. 

Provenance: One bearing a C. T. Loo label
E. T. Hall Collection, nos. 313 and 314. 

Christie's. Chinese Monochrome Porcelain from the Collection of the late E. T. Hall, London, 7 June 2004