Chinese imperial copper-red five dragon medallion bowl, Kangxi mark and period (1662-1722), the exterior decorated with five dragon medallions each in the form of a five-clawed dragon, the interior with a further dragon medallion, with six-character underglaze blue Kangxi reign mark to base, diameter: 5 7/8in., 14.9cm; condition: piece out of rim and re-stuck, four faint hairlines, two small chips to rim. For a similar bowl in the Baur Collection, see John Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva: Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1968-74, vol. 4, no. A530, and in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, see T. Arapova, Chinese Porcelains in the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, pl. 193. SOLD
