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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