The thinly potted the pear-shaped body supported on a slightly splayed foot and tapering gracefully below a wide trumpet mouth, painted with two striding dragons, one in under glaze blue, the other in aubergine enamel, amid leafy lotus scrolls all above a band of lotus panels at the foot, the waisted neck painted with upright plantain, base with six-character Cheng-Hua mark within a double circle, fiftted with wood stand, 13 inch high. Provenance: Formerly from the collection of B.V. Lake, UK, by descent