A CHINESE IMPERIAL YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' SAUCER DISH

SIX CHARACTER GUANGXU MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1875-1908

Decorated to the centre with two incised dragons contesting a sacred pearl amidst flames within a double line border, one dragon highlighted in aubergine enamel, the other picked out in green, the underside with four groupings of grapevines, all reserved on an egg yolk-yellow ground, together with a fitted box, 13cm. (2)

Provenance: from an English private collection, London.

Cf. H Li, Chinese Ceramics, The New Standard Guide, p.297, no.622, for a dish with similar design.