Bottle ID: 344

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RED UNDERGLAZE, BAMBOO SHAPE

Date: 1750-1820

Height: 73 mm

Porcelain with a transparent glaze on copper oxide, modeled as a section of a bamboo stalk, with an everted mouth and circular recessed foot, painted in underglaze copper-red with the Three Friends of Winter; the pine, prunus and bamboo.

Attributed to Jingde zhen.

Similar Examples:

Kleiner, Robert W. L. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, 1990, p. 99, no. 172.
Sotheby's, New York, October 25, 1997, lot 300, The Gerry P. Mack Collection.

Provenance:

Robert Hall
Robert Kleiner
Phillip Allen, UK

Published:

Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd., Catalogue 1998, no. 22

This is an extraordinary bottle both in its use of a bamboo stalk as a form and in the control of the underglaze red color. The painting has been executed with great panache, with a confident freedom in the line of the brush and the underglaze-red has fired to a vibrant rich tone, always difficult to achieve in this medium. This appears to be the only recorded example of the bamboo-stalk form in copper-red.

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