Bottle ID: 334

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SOFT PASTE, JARLET WITH TREFOILS

Date: 1820-1880

Height: 53 mm

Porcelain, soft-paste, jarlet with matching lid and attached spoon; with a transparent glaze on cobalt oxide; of tapering squat cylindrical form with shoulders sloping to an everted wide mouth; decorated in underglaze blue with an interlocking design of scrolling lingzhi fungus heads and lotus flowers beneath a shoulder border of a classic scrolling design beneath a square patterned border, the base with a double blue circular band; the base and interior glazed.
Attributed to Jingde zhen.

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. 137, no. 101.

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.

Soft paste porcelain was developed during the Kangxi period and seemed to have been used less frequently by the potters, and to greater success in terms of quality. Objects produced from this variation in underglaze blue and white porcelain often include small scholar's works of art such as waterpots, brush-washers and snuff bottles. The materials used to produce soft paste wares were similar to hard paste porcelain, although the paste was finer and it was not fired at such a high temperature. The crackle that resulted in the transparent glaze was caused by the difference in proprtions of feldspar in the paste and the glaze itself which had a feldspathic base.

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