Lot 368
LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING STYLE 'DRAGON' CHARGER
LATE 19TH / 20TH CENTURY
Auction: 4 June 2014 at 11:00 BST
£427,250
Description
the centre decorated with a coiling five-toed dragon encircling a flaming pearl and enclosed by a band with two further running dragons, all against a scrolling foliate field with lotus and chrysanthemum and a wave border, Qianlong seal mark to the underside but later
Dimensions
51cm diam
Footnote
Provenance: Private collection, Scotland. The client's uncle was a prisoner-of-war in Japan during the second war and following his release he stayed in Japan working his way to become a successful businessman. He collected this and many other Chinese and Japanese works of art on his travels throughout Asia, bringing them back to England in the 1950's when he set up home in Yorkshire and later Scotland.