A FINE AND RARE IRON-RED-DECORATED BOTTLE VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD
Well painted in three shades of iron red with two large three-clawed dragons striding around the sides of the bulbous body below a single dragon coiled around the tall neck below a garlic mouth, all reserved on the unctuous white ground, raised on a slightly flared pedestal foot with rounded rim
7 7/8in. (20cm.) high, box
拍品專文
Only one other bottle of this rare shape and design appears to be published. See Kangxi.Yongzheng.Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 240, no. 69