A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE EWER after an Yixing original, the globular body with short beast's head spout to the shoulder and moulded with prunus, camelia and iris, the circular foot with a band of ruy-i lappets, the tall cylindrical neck with dragons among cloud scrolls with radiating stiff leaves to the shoulder (minute footrim chip, spout broken and repaired), Japanese Palace inventory mark in black enamel 232. R., circa 1710

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A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE EWER after an Yixing original, the globular body with short beast's head spout to the shoulder and moulded with prunus, camelia and iris, the circular foot with a band of ruy-i lappets, the tall cylindrical neck with dragons among cloud scrolls with radiating stiff leaves to the shoulder (minute footrim chip, spout broken and repaired), Japanese Palace inventory mark in black enamel 232. R., circa 1710
16.7cm. high

Lot Essay

The Johanneum inventory lists 44 wine jars of this type of which this must be one, the Dresden collection owns 29, see Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger, no. 112, also the example sold by Sotheby's, 8 November 1960, lot 174

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