Bottle ID: 747

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UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND RED, FIGURES IN LOGBOAT

Date: 1820-1850

Height: 80 mm

Porcelain, of cylindrical form, with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck, with slightly everted lip, with a recessed circular footim, decorated in underglaze cobalt-blue and copper-red with a transparent glaze, with a scene of three immortal youths on a log-raft, one pulling up a crab from the water, one reaching for a spider and another playing with a bird, all followed by Liu hai on his toad, the frothy waves with different sea creatures, the upper neck with a single line border and at the base with another blue line, the foot and the interior glazed white.

Attributed to Jingdezhen

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 435
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J and J Collection, 1993, Vol. 1, pp. 143-144, no. 78.
JICSBS, Autumn 2002, p. 11, figs. 24a-d

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, March 19, 2018, lot 149
Collection of Dr. Sylvan and Faith Golder

 

It is unusual for the copper-red color to be so well controlled as it is in this example, especially when it is used so sparingly, in this case to highlight the clothes of the figures. Unlike cobalt-blue, the copper-red color has a tendency to spill outside the lines of the design and diffuse into the glaze.

 

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