A large Chinese gilt-decorated powder blue-ground 'dragon' charger

Reference: ART1003084

The charger is finely decorated to the centre with a dragon roundel in gilt, the cavetto is decorated with two pairs of confronting dragons chasing the flaming pearl surrounded by floral cartouches on a prunus and cracked ice ground on the everted rim. The reverse is decorated with flower sprays and the base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark.

Provenance: With label, Perotto Antichità, Milan.