Lot 794. A pair of yellow-ground green-enamelled 'dragon' foliate dishes, Seal marks and period of Qianlong. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 HKD. Lot sold 237,500 HKD. Photo Sotheby's.
each delicately potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a short foot to a flared foliate rim, finely decorated in green enamel against a yellow ground, the interior with a five-clawed dragon soaring en facearound a 'flaming pearl', encircled by two slender dragons around the cavetto and repeated on the underside, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark; 13.1 and 13.4 cm, 5 1/8 and 1/4 in.
Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 02 Jun 2016