A blue and white 'dragon' stool, Ming dynasty, Jiajing period

Dries Blitz, Amsterdam, March 2004.

International Asian Art Fair, New York, 2004.

Compare a pair of similarly decorated stools but with wider proportions sold at Christie's New York, 26th March 2003, lot 248; one decorated with crane and clouds, in the Huaihaitang Collection, included in the exhibition Enlightening Elegance: Imperial Porcelain of the Mid to Late Ming, The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2013, cat. no. 27; and another, decorated with peacocks and cranes amongst rocks and blossoming flowers, from the collection of Francis Golding, sold at Christie's London, 10th November 2015, lot 210.