A RARE CHINESE GREEN AND AUBERGINE GLAZED 'DRAGON' DISH TIANQI 1621-1627 ly decorated with two incised four-clawed dragons, encircling many pearls, detailed on a green-ground, the reverse and rim glazed yellow, the base unglazed, with a paper label for the South Africa National Gallery Chinese Exhibition 1953, no.145, 13.5cm. Provenance: from the collection of G R A Murray and thence by descent. Exhibited: National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town, Chinese Exhibition, 1953, no.145. Cf. J Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Meum, p.395, no.12:106 for a closely related, but larger, dragon dish of this type.明天啟 素三彩趕珠龍紋碟來源：G R A Murray收藏，之後由其家族繼承。展覽：南非開普敦國家畫廊，中國展，1953年，編號145（附標籤）。