Lot 810. Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman. An unusual white-glazed dragon-handled ewer and cover, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); 17.8 cm wide. Price realised USD 5,040 (Estimate USD 6,000 – USD  8,000) © Christie’s 2024.

Provenance : Sotheby's New York, 19 March 1997, lot 213.
Marilyn Burnett Ross Collection, Pleasant Ridge, Michigan.
Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 411.

Note: For a Song dynasty prototype of this form, see Yang Xin, Li Yihua and Xu Naixiang, The Art of the Dragon, Boston, 1988, p. 82, no. 60, where a qingbai globular ewer with a dragon head as a spout, and its body as the handle, is illustrated. A Yuan ewer covered with a white glaze with a slight bluish tinge and surmounted by a dragon forming both the handle and the spout, is in the Musée Guimet, Michel Calmann Collection, no. 416, and is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1976, no. 14.

Christie's. Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman, New York, 22 march 2024.