A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' VASE AND COVER 青花穿花龍紋蓋罐 Of gently-tapering cylindrical form rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, painted with horizontal bands enclosing dragons and swirling clouds reserved on a cracked-ice ground and flowerheads issuing from twisting leafy stems, all beneath a band of vertical leaves to the neck, the cover decorated with elongated ruyi-head panels enclosing stylised lotus blooms, 43.5cm high (2)品相报告: A repair to the neck, with two metal staples. The body and cover with crazing to the glaze throughout. A firing flaw next to the finial.