Details
The bottle is of compressed pear shape with cylindrical neck, molded in relief with a continuous design of a five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl among multi-coloured clouds. The base is inscribed in iron-red with Jiechen zizhi (personally made by Jiechen).
2 1/8 in. (5.6 cm.) high, stopper
Provenance
Lionel Copley
Robert Hall
Hugh Moss, 1994
FranzArt Collection
Literature
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles VI, From the Collection of Lionel Copley, Part II, London and Paris, 1994, no. 135
FranzArt, Chinese Art from the Hedda and Lutz Franz Collection, Volume Four - Fire, Hong Kong, 2014, pp. 42, 148
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