An enamelled 'dragon' dish - Qianlong seal mark and of the period

With flaring rounded sides, supported on a short tapering foot ring, with a central medallion enclosing an iron-red writhing five-clawed dragon reserved on underglaze-blue white crested crashing waves, the undersides decorated with a iron-red sinuous full-faced five-clawed dragon flanked by eight writhing dragons reserved on underglaze-blue white crested waves, with an interlocking cash pattern below the rim. 17.4cm (6¾in) diam. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000

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Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, 12 May 2008. New Bond Street