A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle

GUAN YAO ZHU CANG MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, 1800-1900

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A Blue and White Porcelain Bottle
Guan Yao Zhu Cang mark in underglaze blue, 1800-1900
Of slender ovoid shape, painted with a long poem in 12 vertical lines around the body, bordered by a ruyi band at the foot and prunus and cracked-ice band at the shoulder below the characters Yi Pian Bing Xin Zai Yu Hu at the neck, no stopper
26in. (6.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Yi Pian Bing Xiu Zai Yu Hu can be read as: 'One loyal heart in the jade vessel', Guan Yao Zhu Chang is a collectors' mark.

For a very similar bottle with different inscription, but with the identical part of the inscription to the neck and Guan Yao Yu Zhi mark to the foot, see Au Hang, The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 197-198, no. 269

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