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Bottle ID: 676
BLACK, OCTAGONAL WITH TOP AND BOTTOM FORMALIZED BANDS
Date: 1780-1860
Height: 62 mm
Stoneware, of faceted cylindrical form, with rounded shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck, and with a neatly potted footrim, with eight vertical convex panels, the black ceramic body with impressed decoration with a series of bands of formalized lappets around the neck, and top and bottom of the panels, the foot impressed with two seals in regular script, Shouzhou, and Sunji (Sun family ware).
Attributed to the Sun Family, Shouzhou, Anhui Province.
Similar Examples:
Christie's, New York, March 21, 2002, lot 69, The Blanche B. Exstein Collection.
Provenance:
The Asian Art Studio.
Christie’s, New York, March 22, 2007, lot 36
The J and J Collection.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.
Sotheby’s, New York, March 17, 1997, lot 125
Isabel Beatty Dodge
The Collins Collection, Newport, Rhode Island, 1960
Exhibited:
Christie's Los Angeles, 2003
The majority of stoneware bottles originate in Yixing although other provinces of China were also ceramic producing areas. Without the two identifying seals, it would have been tempting to attribute this bottle to Yixing, but with them this rare bottle can be documented to Shouzhou, in Anhui Province. This may not have been the only town named Shouzhou in the Qing Dynasty and there is no record of the family being potters in Anhui, but this is our best guess. This is the only known example out of the six recorded bottles of this group that has both a potter’s name and a place of manufacture stamped upon it.