Octagonal jar with Shou characters
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Octagonal jar with Shou characters

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Porcelain snuff bottle of octagonal form, painted in underglaze blue with eight vertical Shou characters

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Soft-paste porcelain, of octagonal form, painted in underglaze blue with eight vertical shou characters between a band of petals encircling the base and a ruyi encircling the shoulders, scattered swastikas on the neck and an endless knot painted on the base.

Jingdezhen, 1800-1850.

6cm

Published: Robert Kleiner, In Search of a Dragon, Underglaze-Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver, no 106.

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