The pear-shaped bottle vase with a body rising from a slightly splayed foot to a tall slender cylindrical neck with an applied underglaze-blue moulded dragon to the shoulder and painted in iron-red and enamels with exotic birds beside lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus.
This shape can be found in the Dresden collection, without Dutch-decoration (PO 3153). or with a Dutch-decoration (PO 3150).
Similar examples of chilong vases are illustrated in Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain: 1700-1830, London, 2005, fig. 24 and 43.
For another Dutch-decorated example, with figures after the Montanus’ Atlas Jepannesis, see Roger Keverne, Winter Exhibition 2011, London, 2011
Helen Espir further notes the reason for such later Dutch decoration is because the original Chinese designs were too sparse for Dutch taste.
