A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE

CIRCA 1750

Details

A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE
CIRCA 1750
Of square form, each side with a pagoda in a cloudy landscape, mountains in the distance, the small cylindrical mouth painted with a dragon's head on one side, its lower jaw on the other, a pearl of widsom in between, stylized lotus all around
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) high

Literature

D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, op. p. 204, pl. 237

Exhibited

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1997

Lot Essay

As D. Howard notes in The Choice of the Private Trader, the current form is the forerunner of Japanese square flasks which came into fashion in the 1660s. See Ayers, Impey and Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1990, p. 108, pl. 56 for an example.

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