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Lot Essay
There appear to be two groups of bowls of this pattern: the first type depicts slender dragons with wispy flames, thereby showing a more prominent yellow ground as exemplified by the present bowl, cf. the pair of bowls in the T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 8 October 1990, lot 454; and another pair in the collection of British Rail Pension Fund, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 958.
The second type are those with larger-sized dragons providing a dense pattern of green enamel as exemplified by two bowls, the first formerly from the Constantinidi Collection, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1971, pl. LXIX, no. 4; and the other illustrated in Chinese Porcelain - The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part II, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 97. Another example is illustrated in Palace Museum Collection of Official Ware of the Qing Dynasty, vol. 1 part 2, Beijing, 2005, p. 37, no. 7. A similar bowl was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Ceramics from the Greenwald Collection, 1 December 2010, lot 2828.
The second type are those with larger-sized dragons providing a dense pattern of green enamel as exemplified by two bowls, the first formerly from the Constantinidi Collection, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1971, pl. LXIX, no. 4; and the other illustrated in Chinese Porcelain - The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part II, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 97. Another example is illustrated in Palace Museum Collection of Official Ware of the Qing Dynasty, vol. 1 part 2, Beijing, 2005, p. 37, no. 7. A similar bowl was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Ceramics from the Greenwald Collection, 1 December 2010, lot 2828.