Lot Essay
For a similar example in underglaze red in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see Martin Feddersen, Chinese Decorative Art, London, 1961, p. 110, fig. 95
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A BLUE AND WHITE SOFTPASTE BOTTLE QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD
Of slightly spreading cylindrical shape, painted with three rows of conjoined stylized lotus flowerheads on the body below a ruyi-head collar at the neck, overall light crackle, minor glaze pull at neck
2¾in. (7cm.) high, stopper
Of slightly spreading cylindrical shape, painted with three rows of conjoined stylized lotus flowerheads on the body below a ruyi-head collar at the neck, overall light crackle, minor glaze pull at neck
2¾in. (7cm.) high, stopper