Perpetual Quest

Jingdezhen imperial kilns, 1821-1850
Height: 5.76 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.85/1.20 cm
Stopper: coral; vinyl collar

Provenance:
Clare Chu, September 2008
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Green, black, white and iron-red enamels on colourless glaze on porcelain; with a flat lip and very slightly concave, oval foot; moulded and painted with a relief design of a five-claw Imperial dragon flying in pursuit of a flaming pearl, the foot inscribed in seal script Daoguang nian zhi 道光年製 (‘Made in the Daoguang era’), the interior unglazed.

Alexander Whittaker