Details
TWO ENAMELED PORCELAIN BOTTLES
ONE WITH DAOGUANG IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK, BOTH PROBABLY DAOGUANG
One of flattened pear shape, painted with a five-clawed dragon roundel above waves on each side, marked, the other of cylindrical shape and painted in a similar style with three five-clawed dragons on a white sgraffiato ground above waves in a continuous scene around the body below cell pattern at the shoulder, small foot crack to the first, minute chip on the shoulder of the other, stoppers
(2)
ONE WITH DAOGUANG IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK, BOTH PROBABLY DAOGUANG
One of flattened pear shape, painted with a five-clawed dragon roundel above waves on each side, marked, the other of cylindrical shape and painted in a similar style with three five-clawed dragons on a white sgraffiato ground above waves in a continuous scene around the body below cell pattern at the shoulder, small foot crack to the first, minute chip on the shoulder of the other, stoppers
(2)
Provenance
Albert Pyke Collection, Los Angeles (the first bottle)