Bottle ID: 793

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MOLDED, DRAGON AND PHOENIX, BLUE ENAMEL

Date: 1796-1820

Height: 75 mm

A porcelain snuff bottle, of elongated ovoid form, with a flat gilded lip and a concave oval foot, enameled in dark blue to simulate lapis lazuli, molded and reticulated, on one side with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds, the reverse with a phoenix in flight, the neck with a continuous border of leiwen above inverted lingzhi, the base with a lingzhi border, edged in gilt and inscribed in iron-red regular script within a square two-lined border, Na Zhai Ming Bei. 
Possibly imperial, attributed to the palace kilns, Jingdezhen

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Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art LLC
The Chepsted Collection (Edwin Palmer) 
Robert Kleiner, June 20, 1994
 

PUBLISHED:        

Edwin Palmer and Clare Chu (Ed.). The Chepsted Notebook, A Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2013, p. 157, no. 163

 

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