A FINE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH ZHENGDE MARK AND PERIOD

supported on a slightly tapered foot gently rising to rounded sides, vividly painted with a central medallion enclosing a five-clawed dragon writhing amidst scrolling stems of lotus flowers and trefoil leaves, the cavetto with two further writhing dragons also against lotus scroll all between double-line borders, the reverse similarly decorated, a ruyi-head border at the foot, the base with a four-character mark within a double-circle
Diameter 8 1/4 in., 21 cm

Provenance:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 October 1993, lot 49.
Spink, London.
Offered at Christie's Hong Kong, 30th October 1995, lot 702.
Collection of Robert P. Youngman (1940-2018).