26.8 cm. （10 1/2 in.） diam

Provenance：
General Haughton Collection
Bluett & Sons， London
Gertrude and Otto Harriman Collection（1948-1970）

Exhibited：
Mostra d’Arte Cinese/Exhibition of Chinese Art， Palazzo Ducale， Venice， 1954， cat. no. 647
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain： 14th to 19th Centuries， Oriental Ceramic Society， London， 1954， cat. no. 81
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery， Bristol， U.K. （on loan 1970-1989）
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery， Nottingham， U.K. （on loan 1989-2012）

Comparable Examples：
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum： Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red （I）， Shanghai， 2000， pl. 124
Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty， National Palace Museum， Taipei， 1998， cat. no. 37
Treasures of the Nanjing Museum， Hong Kong， 2001， no. 45
Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum， London， 1980， pl. 148
Oriental Ceramics， The World’s Great Collection， vol. 7， The British Museum， Tokyo， 1976， monochrome pl. 97
Oriental Ceramics， The World’s Great Collection， vol. 10， The Freer Gallery of Art， Tokyo， 1976， monochrome pl. 104
Tianjin Museum of Art， Tian Jin Shi Yi Shu Bo Wu Guan Cang Ci， Tianjin， 1993， pl. 85

Only a small number of Xuande bo decorated with dragons are known. These include an example in the Palace Museum， Beijing illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum， Blue and White porcelain with Underglazed Red （I）， Shanghai， 2000， pl. 124； an example in the National Palace Museum， Taiwan included in the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-Te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty， National Palace Museum， Taipei， 1998， cat. no. 37； an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum， London， illustrated in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum， London， 1980， pl. 148； an example in the British Museum， London， illustrated in Oriental Ceramics， The World’s Great Collections， vol. 7， Tokyo， 1976， Monochrome pl. 97； a bowl in the Nanjing Museum， illustrated in Xu Huping， Treasures of the Nanjing Museum， Hong Kong， 2001， no. 45； an example in the Freer Gallery of Art， Washington D.C.， illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great Collections， vol. 10， Tokyo， 1976， pl. 104； and an excavated example from the imperial kiln site of Zhushan found in 1983 and exhibited at the Chang Foundation， Taiwan， Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen， 1998， illustrated in the catalogue no. 16.1， pl. 25.
Examples sold at auction number around eight including a blue and white bowl from the Wu Lai-Hsi Collection first sold at Sotheby’s London， 26th May 1937， lot 52 and again from the Collection of C.M. Woodbridge， 8th May 1951， lot 69.
A second example from the Collection of Major Lindsay F. Hay was sold at Sotheby’s London， 16th June 1939， lot 84， and again from the Collection of Lionel Edwards， 8th February 1945， lot 84 and for a third time， from the Estate of Major Lindsay F. Hay 25th June 1946， lot 60.
Five further examples were sold at Sotheby’s London including a bowl sold at Sotheby’s London， 6th April 1976， lot 116； one at Sotheby’s London， 7th December 1983， lot 292； another sold 11th May 1965， lot 27 and later at Christie’s New York， 9th November 1981； a fourth， now in the Matsuoka Museum of Art sold at Sotheby’s London， 26th June 1973， lot 236； and a fifth， also sold at Sotheby’s London was sold on the 13th December 1977， lot 472 and more recently at Sotheby’s Hong Kong 10th April 2006， lot 1659.
Another example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong， 20th March 1990， lot 519.

Price estimate:
HKD： 12,000,000-22,000,000
USD： 1,548,400-2,838,700

Auction Result:
HKD: 13,950,000