Sold for $8,125

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Lot Description

A Pair of Chinese Green Enameled Porcelain 'Dragon' Plates

19TH CENTURY

each with shallow, rounded sides rising from a tapered foot, the interior centered with an emerald-green-enameled five-clawed dragon writhing in pursuit of a "flaming pearl," flame scrolls encircling the beast, all enclosed by a green band bordered in underglaze blue lines and repeated at the rim, the exterior similarly decorated, the base inscribed with a six-character Daoguang mark in underglaze blue.

Diameter 7 1/8 in., 18 cm.

Property from the Collection of Pauline and Seymour Kavesky, Michigan

Provenance:
Acquired from Rudi Oriental Antiques, New York, 1950s-1960s.

Condition Report

One example with a large restoration of the wall at 3 o'clock from which extend two additional hairlines, a third forking hairline running the interior at 12 o'clock.

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