A doucai dragon dish, China. Six-character mark Kangxi and of the period. Photo courtesy Lempertz

Diameter 21.2 cm. Lot 424 / Estimate € 20 000. 

A rare yellow-ground doucai dragon dish, the interior painted and enamelled with a full-faced five-clawed dragon and a flaming pearl amidst clouds and fire-scrolls, the reverse with a further striding dragon and long-tailed phoenix divided by a further iron-red pearl, all amidst clouds above cresting waves and stylised rocks reserved on a finely-crackled yellow ground. Short fine crack. Encircled six-character mark Kangxi and of the period.

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