In the Footsteps of the Buddha

Probably Imperial kilns, Jindezhen 1780-1810
Height: 6.39 cm
Mouth/lip: .72/1.91 cm
Stopper:  colourless glaze on white porcelain

Provenance:
Robert Hall, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4896.
Christie’s, New York, 13 September, 2017, lot 211

 

Colourless glaze on white porcelain; with a flat lip, concave oval foot blending into a convex footrim; the double-bodied bottle with a moulded outer layer, pierced through in places to the space beneath, of the Eight Buddhist Emblems beneath a shoulder band of continuous leiwein (‘thunder pattern’) and formalized lingzhi , the latter echoed in the opposite direction around the base, with a band of raised dots around the outer footrim, the lip, foot  glazed, the interior unglazed.

Alexander Whittaker