The exterior decorated with two Ming-style sinuous dragons among cloud scrolls, the interior roundel with similar dragon.

PROVENANCE:

S. Marchant & So, London
Property from a private collection, Bethesda, MD, acquired from the above, November 13, 1998

NOTE:

For other examples of bowls of this pattern, see the bowl sold at Christie's London, July 10, 2006, lot 143; the example formerly in the collection of J. F. Woodthorpe, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong October 9, 2007, lot 1568; another, Christie's London, May 12, 2008, lot 218; and another, Christie's London, November 4, 2013, lot 406.