This design on bowls and dishes is often found with black enamel covering one claw on each hand of the dragon. Compare the present lot with other similar examples, including one in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A555; a pair of bowls in the Romer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated by Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, 1981, pl. 111; and another bowl sold in our London Rooms, 5 December 1994, lot 85.