The well potted baluster body with high rounded shoulder rising to a short neck with an everted rim, boldly decorated to the exterior in white reserve with a large sinuous dragon chasing a flaming pearl beneath a transparent glaze against a rich cobalt-blue glazed ground, the unglazed foot burnt orange in the firing, 17.5 inch high. Provenance: Property from the estate of Mr. Paul Schmaltz, Maryland, see item 1 on T.Y. King Works of Art receipt dated June 21, 1953.