The Beasts of Majesty

Jingdezhen, Imperial kilns, 1820-1870
Height: 7.14 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.73/1.39 cm
Stopper: glass, carved with a coiled chi dragon; glass collar gilt-bronze

Provenance:
Wichita Auctions, New York, 17 March 2013, lot 307

Colourless glaze on cobalt and copper pigment on white porcelain; with a wide mouth, convex lip and recessed, flat, circular foot surrounded by a protruding, convex oval footrim; painted with a continuous design in underglaze blue and red of two five-claw imperial dragons, one rising from waves, the other in the clouds, the foot and interior glazed.