Lot 479. An Imperial underglaze blue and yellow-glazed 'Dragon' dish, China, underglaze blue Qianlong six-character seal mark and period. Estimate 30000/50000 €. Unsold. Photo Nagel

The shallow, rounded sides rise to the slightly everted rim, and the interior is decorated with a five-clawed dragon leaping amidst clouds and flames in pursuit of a flaming pearl, below two dragons at a similar pursuit in the well. A similar dragon frieze is on the exterior above a petal lappet border. The decoration is in lemon-yellow glaze reserved on a blue ground. D. 25,2 cm. Small chips or frits around the rim.

Property from an old Bavarian private collection, bought in Munich in the 1970's.

Notes: A Qianlong dish of this design in Taiwan was included in the Special Exhibition of Dragon-Motif Porcelain in the National Palace Museum , Taipei, 1983, cat.no.76; another from the Scheinman collection in the exhibition Born of Earth and Fire , The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1992, cat.no.90 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  07/12/2015