A yellow and blue dragon dish, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1662-1722) © Christie's Image 2003

Decorated with a five-clawed dragon leaping amidst clouds and flames in pursuit of a flaming pearl, with a frieze of similar decoration on the interior and exterior walls, all in a rich yellow glaze reserved on a bright blue ground - 9 7/8in. (25cm.), box. Lot 313. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000. Price Realized $10,755 

Property from a Japanese Collection 

Notes: Compare a pair of similar dishes included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, S Marchant & Son, London, June 1992, p. 17, no. 3 and a single dish illustrated in Chugoku bijutsu - Ten; Min, Shin no bijutsu (Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties), Osaka Municipal Art Museum, 1980, p. 32, no. 1:129. See, also, another pair sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29 April 2001, lot 693. 

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza