Jiajing marks, Late Qing dynasty|Each with a compressed ovoid body rising from a recessed base to a short straight neck, painted around the exterior in bright cobalt-blue tones with two scaly five-clawed dragons surrounded by wisps of flames amidst scattered scrolling clouds, all between bands of tight scrolls and ruyi at the neck and shoulder, and petal lappets around the foot, the base with six-character mark in underglaze-blue, the domed covers with bud finials decorated en suite. |8 1/2in (21cm) high|PublishedThe San Francisco Examiner, July 12, 1964, (Pictorial Living supplement p.13)Provenance By repute Templeton Crocker (1884-1948); thereupon Mariam Mckay of Hillsborough, California; thereupon to J. Lester Jervis and to the current owner by descent