A blue and white stemcup
A blue and white stemcup
A bowl-shaped cup with everted rim on a slightly spreading hollow stem with ridges to resemble a bamboo stem. Decorated with a long three-clawed dragon pursuing a flaming pearl, and with a flower spray to the centre, a tendril scroll border around the rim.
Height 11.5 cm
Literature
Compare Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik, Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Cologne 1988, pl. 60