Rounded sides, lipped rim. It is incised and enamelled with a pair of striding dragons pursuing 'flaming pearls' above a wave border near the foot, all picked out in bright apple-green reserved on a lemon-yellow ground. The interior repeats the decoration with a dragon within double circles. The base with the six character mark within double circles. Diameter 12.3 cm. Height 6 cm.
Cracks to rim.
Provenance
From the Collection of Johan Almqvist (1940-2024). Johan spent his early years in various countries and learned many languages thanks to his father, Karl Fredrik Almqvist (1906-1982), who was a Swedish diplomat. Johan had a passion for art and travel early on. In the early 1960s, as one of his first jobs as a free-lance journalist, he traveled to the Middle East where his interest in Persian ceramics and collecting started.
He then came to be based in Japan, still as a free-lance journalist for all the major Scandinavian Newspapers as well as Springer (Die Welt and Zeitung), Swedish Television, Svensk Radio and Radio Luxembourg. He covered a large part of Asia, including The Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam.
1974 he was hired by Beijer Invest to be based in Japan.
Exhibitions
Compare with bowls of this type in the Palace Museum of Taipei, Taiwan. For example, object Number故瓷000445N000000000. Object Number故瓷001697N000000000
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