A GREEN-ENAMELED 'DRAGON' DISH KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
the shallow, rounded sides set over a slightly tapered foot and rising to an everted rim, the interior centered with a green-enameled five-clawed dragon writhing in pursuit of a 'flaming pearls', all encircled by a green-enameled band at the cavetto and another at the rim, the motif repeated at the exterior with two dragons striding over a ground of incised waves, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm
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the shallow, rounded sides set over a slightly tapered foot and rising to an everted rim, the interior centered with a green-enameled five-clawed dragon writhing in pursuit of a 'flaming pearls', all encircled by a green-enameled band at the cavetto and another at the rim, the motif repeated at the exterior with two dragons striding over a ground of incised waves, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm