Lot description
finely potted with rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, the interior superbly painted with a central medallion enclosing an iron-red scaly five-clawed frontal dragon coiling around a flaming pearl, against a ground of underglaze-blue turbulent waves, surrounded on the cavetto with four different iron-red dragons striding rampantly amidst ruyi-shaped cloud scrolls exquisitely rendered in shaded tones of cobalt-blue, each serpentine mythical beast portrayed differently, two of them five-clawed, one with an elongated trunk, the other two three-clawed, one winged and detailed with a fish tail, all surrounded by a border of crashing waves on the rim, the exterior vibrantly decorated with four similar dragons striding through clouds, the base inscribed with an underglaze-blue six-character seal mark, Japanese double wood box 48 cm
