A rare Chinese Doucai hat stand, modelled in two sections and with a cover, the spherical top section pierced with four dragon medallions and reserved on a floral ground, the knopped stem raised on a bell-shaped foot painted with bats and clouds rising from a quatrefoil flower scroll base with four gilt and iron-red dragon supports, the base painted with blue and green with key pattern motif, possibly late Qing or Republican period, 32cm highFor a very similarly shaped Qianlong Famille Rose example in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, see Enamelled Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty , Book II, pl.II; and for a Jiaqing example, see G.Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure , London, 1987, p.24, cat.no.8晚清或民国（可能） 斗彩缠枝莲纹帽托 small chip to one of the inner connecting flanges; stress cracks to glaze on bell shaped central section