Bottle ID: 175

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RECTANGULAR WITH DRAGON

Date: 1700 - 1722

Height: 66 mm

Bronze, gilded, of tapering rectangular form with square shoulders and a small cylindrical neck, incised on the four sides with a continuous design of a five-clawed scaly dragon above waves, flying among clouds in pursuit of a flaming pearl, the base incised with a four character Kangxi yuzhi mark in regular script.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 424
Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 2010, lot 6, The Joe Grimberg Collection.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles - The Mary and George Bloch Collection, 2009, Vol. 7, Part 2, pp. 370-371, no. 1618 and pp. 375-376, no. 1620.

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.
Christie's, New York, June 3, 1993, lot 383
Franz Haller Collection
John Sparks Ltd.

Published:

Lawrence, Clare. Twenty-Five Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, 1993.

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