A pair of yellow-ground green and aubergine enamel 'dragon' dishes, Marks and period of Guangxu

Collection of Henry Mazot (1882-1956), and thence by family descent.

Qing Porcelain from Three Private Collections, Marchant, London, 2019, pp 66-7, cat. no. 26.

Compare a similar example preserved in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, San Francisco, 1996, cat. no. 622. Another related pair of Daoguang marked saucer dishes was exhibited in Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-coloured Wares, Marchant, London, 1992, cat. no. 55; and a further example published in Peter Lam, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 61, where the author notes that this design is listed as no. 48 in the 1864 and no. 47 in the 1900 imperial kiln production lists.