Provenance: John Sparks, London, July 1937
Paul Berwald Collection.
Falk Collection no. 264.
The Falk Collection, Christie's, New York, 21 September 2001, lot 154.

Exhibited: Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, no. 368.
Dragons in Chinese Art, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, New York, 1972, pl. 56.
The Auspicious Dragon in Chinese Decorative Arts, Kantonah Gallery, Katonah, New York, 1978, no. 56.

Note: Compare the Kangxi-marked vase with straight neck painted with a similar vertically leaping dragon from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, no. 369, and later sold in these rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 216.