C4 A “famille verte” dragon snuff bottle

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Description

Description: A Chinese, porcelain snuff bottle shaped as a flat bottle with long neck, decorated with two dragons on a sgraffito background.  A dragon painted in overglaze green enamel and a dragon painted in overglaze yellow enamel are chasing the sacred pearl, flying among flaming clouds, all painted in over glaze iron red enamel, on a background of waves incised in the glaze.

Mark: There is no mark, but there are clear signs of its existence, meaning that for some reason it has been erased.

Dating: Guangxu period

Material: Porcelain decorated over glaze, not glazed inside.

Size: 69 mm

Stopper: Glass imitating green jade and bone spoon

Provenance: Ex Carlo Cottarelli Collection, Milano, Italy. Bought directly from him.

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Notes: About Carlo Cottarelli collection, see the Notes in C2.

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