Details
Applied with a dragon-form handle, the three-toed dragon biting the rim of the cup, the exterior enameled with dragons in aubergine and blue on a stippled ground, the interior rim with cartouches of songbirds and crickets alternating with trellis and cell-pattern grounds, together with a pierced wooden stand carved with prunus blossoms, on a weighted base; red-painted accession no. KH.WD.CP.3 to both the cup and stand
51⁄4 in. (13.3 cm.) wide, the cup
Provenance
Estate of Martha Baird Rockefeller (1895-1971)
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, New York, 1971
By descent from the above to the late owner, 1992
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