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Glazed Double Gourd Bottle

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« on: August 21, 2016, 06:26:20 pm »


Hello All,

  A recent surprise find at an East Coast auction. By the size and smooth double gourd contours, the tactile feel of it in the fingers is extraordinary 

 A Yixing monochromatic double gourd bottle with a grape vine pattern, clear glaze on a natural brown slip colored paint,  against a natural buff ground, with sky blue enamel grapes, convex lip rim, raised on an unglazed foot rim. The glaze ends unevenly at the rim. The foot is deeply concave.

 Condition: few patches of glaze crackle can be viewed under magnification around the upper body and neck

Size:
 HT: 6.35c;  Base diameter:3.65cm

 Mouth: .71cm

Glazing of Yixing ware is rare, and in keeping with the literati aesthetic some of the wares were painted in the natural slip colors. The color ranges of the clays found there are described as buff to reddish brown to chocolate brown
 Some interesting notes regarding the potteries in Yixing xian are available at Gotheborg.com in the Yixing glossary section,  with the link given below.
http://gotheborg.com/glossary/yixing.shtml

Best,

Kevin

Dear Kevin,

This doesn't looked like Chinese and definitely not a snuff bottle.
Attractive yes. More of a bottle vase.

Cheers,
YT
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