A LARGE CHINESE COPPER-RED 'FIVE DRAGON' VASE 18TH CENTURY The pear-shaped body with a tall tapering neck, decorated with scaly five-clawed dragons amidst clouds and flames, their eyes picked out in underglaze blue, all above breaking waves, the short foot painted with a continuous leaf scroll, with gilt-metal mounts to the neck and foot, the neck reduced and the base lacking, 55cm overall. Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009), the Trustees of Exbury House. Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.I, p.215, no.449 for a smaller related vase, but with a single dragon. 十八世紀 釉裡紅趕珠龍紋瓶 來源：Lionel de Rothschild（1882-1942）舊藏，Edmund de Rothschild（1916-2009），英國漢普郡艾斯博瑞莊園。