Bottle ID: 66

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MOLDED AND GLAZED/BISCUIT WITH LOTUS AND DUCK

Date: 1880-1920

Height: 84 mm

Porcelain, of cylindrical form, with a lightly everted mouth and unglazed foot, applied on the body and with incised detailing, with a scene of a waddling duck amongst budding lotus leaves and pads; the body covered overall in a whitish-green glaze, highlighting the unglazed leaves and flowers, the unglazed duck with its eye picked out in black.

Attributed to Jingde Zhen.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 399

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.
Richard A. Bourne Co. Inc., Mass., December 14, 1988, lot 49
Mrs. J. Gerald Mayer

With the Taiping Rebellion at full tilt in the mid-nineteenth century, very little porcelain was produced during the years of Xianfeng or Tongzhi's reigns. Certainly the individual potters who produced carved porcelain appeared to come to more or less of a halt. The city was overrun with rebels at this time and the kilns were almost completely destroyed in 1855. In the Guangxu period the kilns were re-vitalized and carved porcelain was one of the types of decoration that re-emerged. Without the delicacy or indeed the artistry of the earlier potters such as Li Yucheng, the bottles produced at this time nevertheless exhibit a charming and at times humorous quality.

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