A Chinese blue and white garlic-neck bottle vase with floral design. Transitional period

The bottle with globular body and long neck, widening gently below the rim, with a bulbous ring on the upper part, and standing on a low straight foot. Made of very white porcelain, it is decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with “floating flowers”, scattered peony, lotus, and chrysanthemum sprays on the body, a border of spearhead leaves around the vase of the neck. Clouds motifs are painted on the raised ring around the neck, and vertical leaves hang below the rim.

COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : Transitional period (1620-1683), mid 17th century
MATERIAL : porcelain
SIZE : 37 cm
REFERENCE : E156
STATUT : sold
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There are bottles similar in shape and decoration in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul.

A similar bottle to this example was in the Hatcher cargo salvaged from a Chinese junk wrecked in the South China Sea around 1643.

Another very similar bottle is in the RA collection, Cintra published by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos in The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector’s Vision, Jorge Welsh Books, Lisbon/London, 2011, T. I, p. 248.

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