A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'FULL-FACED' DRAGON DISH 17th century

A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'FULL-FACED' DRAGON DISH
17th century
Decorated on a turquoise-blue ground throughout, the center with a full-faced four-clawed dragon with writhing body above a flaming pearl set within a roundel bordered by green waves and white bubbling and frothy waves, all below a rounded cavetto with twelve lotus heads on a formalized leafy scroll, the everted rim with twenty-four small ruyi-head motifs on a leafy running scroll and gilt copper rim, the underside with six formalized lotus heads on leafy scrolls centered by a small roundel with a curving ten-petaled flower head to the slightly convex base, the rounded sides and rim of the dish with ten formalized scrolling lotus and a thin ruyi-band mirroring the interior, supported on a thin gilt copper foot rim with fourteen reticulated ruyi-shaped cloud panels
10in (25.5cm) diam
Footnotes:
十七世紀 罕見銅胎嵌絲琺瑯龍紋盤

Provenance:
Nicholas Loos

來源：
Nicholas Loos舊藏

For a larger dish (17 1/8in diam) dated to the first half of the 17th century in the Phoenix Art Museum, see Beatrice Quette, Ed., Cloisonné, Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York, Paris, New Haven and London, 2011, p. 251, no. 54, with similar decoration and format to the underside of the dish.