Message #35395

[rpfstoneman]

All,

I had promised to post this bottle shortly after I received it in February as part of a three bottle purchase.  It took a little longer than expected to get the bottle cataloged with updated pictures.  This is the bottle that is very similar to Richard’s recent acquisition posted earlier in this thread.

A continuation for those who enjoy this type of bottle, Charll



Blue and White Porcelain Dragon Pillar Bottle:
A soft paste porcelain blue and white dragon pillar snuff bottle, of cylindrical shape, with a very short flared neck. Well painted dragon in good tones of underglaze blue with a five clawed scaly dragon chasing a pearl amid flames motif.  A stylized ruyi-head band raps the neck of the bottle.  The bottle throat and base are encircle with a faint finely painted double blue ring.  Bottle has an unglazed counter sunken concentric twelve ring base.  Height is 7.9 cm without stopper by 2.7 cm in diameter. 

Period: Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, c. 1800-1860.

Provenance: Out of a Private Collection in Omaha Nebraska.  Acquired from a shop at the Plaza Hotel, New York City, ca. 1975.