Thickly potted with wide rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot. The inside decorated with a full faced five-clawed dragon amid a scatter of cloud scrolls within line borders repeated at rim. Reverse decorated with dragons chasing the pearl amid clouds. Diameter 28,6 cm.
Rim grounded, rim crack.
The Collection of Gustaf Wallenberg (1863-1939). The collection was acquired between 1906 and 1918 when Wallenberg was the Swedish Envoyé in Tokyo, from 1907 he was also accredited for Beijing. Thence by descent.