Second Helping

Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, 1821-1850
Height:   5.62 cm
Mouth/lip:  0.52/1.96 cm
Stopper:  iron-red, gold and turquoise green pigment on porcelain

Provenance:
Beijing Wenberry, 22 June 2014, lot 4008
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Variegated brown, orange and iron-red enamels on colourless glaze on white porcelain; with a convex lip and recessed, partly convex foot surrounded by a convex foot rim; enamelled to imitate quartz conglomerate (‘pudding-stone’), the foot inscribed in iron red seal script Daoguang nian zhi 道光年製  (‘Made in the Daoguang era’), the interior unglazed.

Alexander Whittaker