Bottle ID: 355

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RED UNDERGLAZE, IMPERIAL DRAGON

Date: 1770-1820

Height: 68 mm

Porcelain with a transparent glaze on copper oxide; of flattened, elongated tapering ovoid form with a cylindrical neck and recessed oval foot; painted with a continuous design of a five-clawed dragon flying in clouds above another dragon emerging from formalized waves below, the neck with a band of pendant formalized lingzhi heads.

Imperial, Jingde Zhen Imperial kilns,

Similar Examples:

Kleiner, Robert. In Search of a Dragon: Underglaze-Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver, 2007, p. 25, no. 5.
Sotheby's, New York, September 15, 1998, lot 177, The Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection.
Christie's, New York, March 19, 2008, lot 201, The Meriem Collection.

Provenance:

Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.

This powerful example may be one of the finest of all late Qianlong underglaze red porcelain dragon bottles. The vibrant quality of the decoration and the control of the firing process, together with the resultant thick bubbly glaze all point to manufacture in the Imperial kilns of Jingde zhen.

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