Lot 10. An underglaze-blue and iron-red-decorated ‘Dragon’ dish, Daoguang six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1821-1850); 7 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) diam. Estimate £8,000 – £12,000 ($12,112 - $18,168).  Price realised GBP 15,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The dish is decorated to the centre of the interior with an iron-red five-clawed dragon above crashing waves. The exterior is decorated with nine further iron-red dragons on a similar ground below a stylised floral border at the rim. 

Provenance: The Simon Kwan Collection.
Christie's Singapore, 30 March 1997, lot 371.
Christie's Paris, 14 June 2006, lot 388.

Exhibited: The Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, 13 August - 25 September 1983, Catalogue, no. 23.
The National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985,Catalogue, no. 23.

Christie's. APPRECIATING ELEGANCE: ART FROM THE SUI YUAN ZHAI COLLECTION, 11 May 2015, London, King Street