An iron-red and underglaze-blue 'dragon' cover, Mark and period of Tongzhi | 清同治 青花礬紅彩雲龍紋盌蓋 《大清同治年製》款

Collection of Charles R. Nesbitt (1921-2007), acquired prior to the 1990s, and thence by descent. 

Charles Rudolph Nesbitt was an Oklahoma attorney, politician and a permanent member of the board of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City. He held several political positions in the Oklahoma state government, having served as the 9th Attorney General of Oklahoma (1963–1967), a member of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (1969–1975), and as Oklahoma Secretary of Energy under Governor David Walters (1991–1995).