A fine blue and white 'dragon' bowl, Mark and period of Kangxi

Collection of Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler (1871-1946), and thence by descent.

Compare a closely related bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai ciqi leixuan [Qing porcelains from the Palace Museum collection selected by type], vol I: Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci [Blue-and-white porcelain of the Shunzhi and Kangxi reigns of the Qing], Beijing, 2005, pl. 121; another in the Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington-on-Sea, illustrated in Gordon Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Birchington, 1988, pl. 82; and a third example from the collections of Paul Baerwald and Stephen Junkunc, III, included in An Exhibition of the Paul Baerwald Collection of Chinese Porcelain, John Sparks, London, 1937, cat. no. 53, and sold in our New York rooms, 12th September 2018, lot 106.