A TEADUST-GLAZED PORCELAIN BOTTLE

INCISED YONGZHENG MARK, 1800-1900

Details

A TEADUST-GLAZED PORCELAIN BOTTLE
Incised Yongzheng mark, 1800-1900
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape, molded in low relief to one side with a monkey pulling at a pine branch hanging from rockwork with a bird or dragonfly nearby, and to the other side with a deer below further pine and rockwork suspended from the branches, with three bees hovering nearby a beehive, stopper
2.11/16in. (6.8cm.) high

Literature

Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 370-371, no. 55

Lot Essay

Due to the belief that deer live to a great age, they have become a long-life symbol. Coupled with the belief that the deer is the only animal able to find the sacred fungus of immortality, lingzhi, deer have become a particularly desirable subject.

The subject matter on both sides of this bottle, bird, deer, bee and monkey, form the rebus juelu feng hou, which can be read as "May you receive high rank and profit."

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