Message #14433

[Wattana]

Way to go!  I think yoiu made a home run on this one. I actually think it could just as easy be Qianlong.  There was one sold signed Yizhai that is very much like your shape and foot. That one is given a broad date but could be as early as 1740.

Dear All,
   Thanks to all of you for your kind comments.

Hi Tom B.,
   If you are referring to the Yizhai in the Bloch Collection, I have looked at all ten jet bottles in TCSB Vol.7, and personally think two others are closer in appearance (if you have the book, they are nos. 1603 and 1605; the Yizhai is no. 1604). To me it follows the classic Daoguang rectangular 'flask' shape, which is probably why Y.F. Yang assigned it to that period when he sold it to the seller's father in 1968. But, interestingly, one of the above mentioned Bloch bottles is dated to as early as 1760. So it may be Qianlong, but we will never know!