Lot 344. A doucai 'Dragon' cup, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Diameter 3 1/2  in., 3.7 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 USD. Lot sold 15,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby’s.

the low rounded sides painted to the exterior with two five-clawed dragons striding amidst stylized clouds, each element outlined in soft underglaze-blue and filled in with a combination of pastel and vibrant enamels, all between an underglaze-blue double-line border above and single-line border below, the recessed base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark within a double square, coll. no. 1594.

Property of The Jie Rui Tang Collection

Provenance: Berwald Oriental Art, London, 2000. 

Literature: Jeffrey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, pl. 28.

Sotheby's. KANGXI: The Jie Rui Tang Collection, New York, 20 March 2018, 11:00 AM