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Charll shared this beautiful Xianfeng (1851-1861) dated bottle depicting NeZha combating the Dragon King amongst a rolling sea of blue and eight mythical sea creatures.


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« on: October 10, 2017, 02:04:36 pm »

Thanks for sharing Rube!

That is definitely a interesting piece.

I personally think the bottle might newer than it looks like, the symbol or the character on the sliver stripe is "丰feng" which means bumper harvest ,the symbol on the back are wheat which also mean bumper harvest,. But the 丰 is a simplify character which was widely used after 1950, before that " 豐feng" the traditional Chinese character  was the one used widely. I am not saying that there is no chance it can be dated before 1950, we still can see some simplify characters were used before 1950, but not so often, and the scheme "bumper harvest" is not a popular scheme for 19th C.

So overall, I will date it 1950-1970. Just my 2 cents worth.

Anyway, A very interesting bottle, and thank you for sharing.

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Steven
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