Delicately painted pair of sauce dishes, with 5 toed dragons chasing the flaming pearl of knowledge, on white porcelain with copper oxide red paint.  The rear, in biscuit, signed by the artist.  The Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) was the last Chinese dynasty, and the longest dynasty ruled by foreigners (the Manchus from Manchuria, northeast of the Great Wall). The Qing Dynasty had the most overseas contact, though it was mostly resisted.