Sale 68 The Jane and Dan Sten Olsson Collection of Large Dragons Sale 3

China, Essay of Accepted Design with "Extra Circle" : Large Dragon 1ca. yellow-green imperforate on thin wove paper, horizontal pair [11-12] with 8.5mm. sheet margin at left, bright clear colour, fine printing showing sharp highly detailed impression, large margins all round, light creasing as is to be expected from the very thin paper used for this essay, nevertheless very fine and fresh.
Estimate 30,000 - 40,000

Provenance: Sir Percival David, Robson Lowe (London), 4.10.1967, lot 6 (as a strip of three)
Dr. Warren G. Kauder, Robson Lowe (London), 10.11.1971, lot 2 (as a strip of three)
Bernard Stoloff, Christie's Robson Lowe (Zurich), 14.5.1987, lot 2205 (as a pair).

This pair was taken from a strip of three [11-12-13] originally in the David collection.

From our records of plated examples, we can ascertain that there were at least three sheets of this essay produced.