Bottle ID: 00223

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PORCELAIN, ENAMELED FAMILLE ROSE, CRANES ON ROCKWORK

Date: Late 19th/early 20th century

Height: 63 mm

Porcelain, hard paste, of flattened shield shape, with an everted gilded mouth and tapering to a narrow foot, decorated in famille rose and iron-red enamels with a continuous scene of two red crested cranes standing on rockwork under a gnarly pine tree amongst lotus, bamboo and chrysanthemum; the base with a two character iron-red mark in seal script Qianlong.

Attributed to Jingde Zhen.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 304.
Sotheby's, New York, March 23, 2004, lot 104, Collection of Robert and Molly Hsieh.
Hughes, Michael C. The Blair Bequest - Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002, p. 169, no. 209.
Snuff Bottles - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 47, Beijing, 2003, p. 226, no. 346.

Provenance:

Robert Hall

Exhibited:

Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007

This porcelain bottle, with its enamel decoration is very late and highly likely to have been made in the twentieth century. However it retains a certain charm and in style fits into the Collection as an example of what continued to be made, evoking the sybolism of earlier wares.

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