Bottle ID: 769

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PORCELAIN, PANELS BORDERED BY YELLOW FLORAL GROUND

Date: 1912-1949

Height: 72 mm

Porcelain, of slender, tapering, teardrop form, with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck with slightly everted mouth, and with an indented oval foot, covered overall in a transparent glaze and decorated in famille-rose enameling with gilding, on each main side within an oval panel following the shape of the bottle, one panel with the scene of a scholar seated at the window of a pavilion overlooking a garden, observing a younger man reading to him from a folded book; the reverse with a panel with a scene of a scholar seated at a table set outside in a garden, a book open before him, talking to a woman who is walking towards him from a building in the background; the panels surrounded by a design of scrolling flowers and lotus reserved against a pale yellow ground; the neck with a lingzhi-head border in pink enamel; the base with a blue enamel Qianlong nianzhi mark, but Republic Period.
Attributed to Jingdezhen.

Similar Examples:

Hughes, Michael C. The Blair Bequest - Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002, p. 170, no. 211

Provenance:

Emily Byrne-Curtis, New York

 

The kilns at Jingdezhen, which for the most part had not survived the turmoil of the mid-nineteenth century, became active again during the Guangxu Period (1874-1908) under the direction of Cixi, the Empress Dowager, and continued into the Republic Period when some of the finest enameled porcelain was produced. The style of earlier wares was produced with great success, allowing for enamelers and potters to flourish once again in Jingdezhen.

 

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