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A GROUP OF FOUR BOTTLES
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The first is an opaque, white glass bottle of rounded, ovoid form on an oval foot and painted with bai gu or the 'Hundred Antiques' in famille rose enamels, the base with traces of a Guyue xuan mark. The second is an insided-painted rock crystal bottle of rounded, rectangular form, carved with mask and ring handles and decorated with a continous mountainscape depicting a scholar playing a lute with attendants on a lake. The bottle is signed Kui Detian, and bears an inscription reading, zi chun ren xiong du ren ya zheng, (My dear friend, Zi Chun, is a gentleman and a man of elegance and integrity.) The third is a rounded, turquoise-glazed porcelain bottle molded in relief with ba jixiang, the Eight Buddhist Symbols. The fourth is a porcelain bottle of ovoid form covered in a teadust green glaze.
2 1/8, 2¼, 2 5/8, 2¼ in. (3.2, 5.5, 6.7, 5.5 cm.) high, two plastic and two glass stoppers (4)
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