A Fine Chinese Green and Aubergine Dragon Bowl The steep rounded sides rising gently towards a flared rim, enamelled on the exterior with two fierce five-clawed dragons chasing the ’flaming pearl’ amidst clouds and flames, above rocks and waves, the scaly skin and details of the dragons finely incised and picked out in aubergine enamel against a bright green ground, the interior and the base white, inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark of Kangxi within double circles on the base. Period: Kangxi (1662-1722). Diameter 10.3 cm.