A massive blue and white 'dragon' fish basin Qing Dynasty, 18th century

heavily potted of squat cylindrical form tapering at the footrim, vividly painted with two pairs of contronting five-clawed scaly dragons, each pair reaching out to a 'flaming pearl' amidst flames and clouds, all set between crashing waves around the foot and a bold dot-decorated border reserved in white around the mouth, the interior glazed white and the base left unglazed

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th April 1998, lot 796.