Glazed and enamelled porcelain ‘Dragon’ bowl, Qing dynasty

Modelled porcelain in the form of a small bowl with a circular base and a rounded body, slightly widened at the mouth. It is decorated with a continuous scene of elongated five-clawed dragons with sinuous, scaly bodies and fierce gazes, accompanied by elongated ruyi clouds. The decorations are drawn in underglaze blue, covered with a transparent greenish glaze. On the base is a six-character seal in a double square frame ‘大明成化年制’. 

Height: 5 cm; Mouth diameter: 8.3 cm; Base diameter: 2.3 cm