Sky Blue Glazed Double Dragon Ear Bottle

[Sky Blue Glazed Double Dragon Ear Bottle]

Sky Blue Glazed Double Dragon Ear Bottle, Qing Yongzheng, height 51.8 cm, caliber 11.7 cm, foot diameter 13.7 cm
Bottle washing, thin neck, shoulder slip, gradually converging from shoulder to shoulder, round foot. The whole body is painted with sky-blue glaze, with several string patterns raised, and the dragon handle is symmetrically placed between the mouth and shoulder on both sides. There are eight groups of oval molded decals on the shoulder. On the outsole, there are six characters and three lines in blue and white seal “made in Yongzheng year of the Qing Dynasty”. This bottle is modeled after the Tang Dynasty white glaze or three-color double-dragon ear bottle
The firing of Yongzheng sky blue glaze porcelain has further developed on the basis of Kangxi, forming two glaze colors of different shades, as deep as the clear sky after rain and as pale as the moon white. In addition, the sky blue glazed porcelain in the Kangxi Dynasty was mostly small stationery, while the sky blue glazed porcelain with large lines appeared in the Yongzheng period, such as pots, bottles, vats, flower pots, etc.

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