Lot 37
37
A RARE FAUX TURQUOISE PORCELAIN BOTTLE

Details
A RARE FAUX TURQUOISE PORCELAIN BOTTLE
EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Of flattened spade shape, painted in a turquoise glaze with feathery black inclusions to simulate turquoise matrix and lightly incised with two descending dragons on each side coiled towards a central shou character above a lotus flower, minute glaze bubbles at the mouth, stopper
Provenance
Thomas Bellow Walker (Walker Institute), Australia

Lot Essay

For another bottle imitating turquoise matrix see Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 Oct-26 Nov, 1977, Catalogue, fig. 65, and also illustrated by Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, 1990, Catalogue, fig. 131