Bottle ID: 804

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SOFT PASTE, BLUE AND WHITE UNDERGLAZE WITH DRAGON

Date: 1800-1850

Height: 72 mm

A soft paste porcelain snuff bottle, of cylindrical form,  with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck and with a circular footrim, decorated under a creamy-crackle glaze in underglaze blue with a continuous scene of a fierce five-clawed scaly dragon flying through scrolling clouds above a grassy bank where a tiger sits, gazing up at it; the neck encircled with a trefoil border.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection, no. 404
Kleiner, Robert. Chinese Snuff Bottles - The White Wings Collection, 1997, p. 139, no. 93
Kleiner, Robert. In Search of a Dragon: Underglaze Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver, 2007, p. 39, no. 19

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art LLC
Mary Morrison, Vancouver, Canada

 

 

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