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Porcelain bottle with Yong Zheng seal

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: April 12, 2016, 06:32:59 pm »

Dear Marcos,

     The late Robert Kleiner published a catalogue of 110 of my B & W snuffbottles in 2007, to coincide with a Museum exhibition in the Gardiner Ceramics Museum Sept.-Nov.2007. The catalogue is titled, "In Search Of A Dragon", and I shorten it to "Dragon", since everyone on the Forum seems to have a copy.  # 3 shows an 18th C. bottle where the dragon's scales are painted to imitate a 3 dimensional effect. After this was the cross-hatched and dotted style of depicting dragons' scales (and carps'), ca. 1820-1860; and then cross-hatching and a wash of underglaze cobalt blue or copper red (or overglaze iron red as in your example), ca.1860-1920.
Sorry for the confusion,
Best,
Joey


Dear Joey,

Thanks again. I would never think of checking the dots inside the scales.

(What is "dragon" #14 and #17?)

Hello Charll and George,

I am happy you liked it.

Best Regards,

Marcos
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