A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER 'DRAGON' TAZZA Early 20th Century, marked TC, TUCK CHANGA London private collection of jade carvings and Chinese works of art, lots 1-104A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER 'DRAGON' TAZZAEarly 20th Century, marked TC, TUCK CHANGThe circular raised bowl engraved with a five-clawed dragon among clouds against a stipple ground, with a repousse border of two pairs of confronting dragons, supported on a stem formed as an ao fish rising from a knopped spreading foot, with borders of dragons, bamboo and acanthus.17cm (6 3/4in) high, 20cm (8in) diam.Provenance: a London private collection amassed between the 1970s and 1990s and thence by descent.