A GLAZED AND MOLDED 'LOTUS LEAF' PORCELAIN BOTTLE

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A GLAZED AND MOLDED 'LOTUS LEAF' PORCELAIN BOTTLE
19TH/20TH CENTURY

Modeled as a curling lotus leaf with underside veins exposed and trailing tendrils and flowerheads, a water bug to one side, glazed primarily in turquoise, green, aubergine and yellow, stopper

Provenance
Arthur Loveless Collection, Seattle Mrs. Elmer A. Claar, Chicago
Sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, December 2, 1969 (Part One), lot 38

Lot Essay

For a gray-glazed porcelain bottle of similar type and its ivory precursor, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pp. 177 and 135, and figs. 240 and 186, respectively

For the identical model in biscuit porcelain see Sotheby's New York, November 22, 1988, lot 261

For other enameled examples see Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 Oct-26 Nov 1977, Catalogue, fig. 127; and Christie's London, The Ko Family Collection, June 18, 1973, lot 45