A blue and white dish with stylized dragons, 18th century.
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Rounded sides, unglazed base, decorated in underglaze blue with stylized dragons amidst cloud formations. The back with lingzhi fungus. Diameter 28 cm.
Provenance
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.
Purchased at Bukowskis 2008, Sale 0550, lot no 2076.
Exhibitions
Compare a bowl of this decoration in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1879. Accession Number: 79.2.206. The bowl has a Yongzzheng mark and is catalogued as of the period.