A COPPER-RED-DECORATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
A COPPER-RED-DECORATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1770-1800

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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1770-1800
The elongated pear-shaped body is decorated in underglaze red of crushed-strawberry tone with a continuous scene of a five-clawed dragon amidst clouds and flames above another dragon rising from waves at the bottom on one side.
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
Provenance
Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2570.

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