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拍品专文
Though similar chargers are known in museums and private collections worldwide, the present charger distinguishes itself by the recision in the moulding of the dragon, imbuing it with a powerful sense of movement. Compare to a charger with the same motif in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collection, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, no. 132; another with the dragon facing the opposite direction in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, p. 256, no. 62, where four further variants are also illustrated, including one surrounded by three clouds, one by two clouds, one by a single cloud, and one without a flaming pearl, see ibid., nos. 58, 59, 60, 62, respectively.