AN UNUSUAL JIANGYOU-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD WINE BOTTLE

AN UNUSUAL JIANGYOU-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD WINE BOTTLE
PROBABLY EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The squat gourd-shaped body with a slightly flared cylindrical neck, the base unglazed, 15cm.

Provenance: formerly from the Jardine Collection, later the Mark and Elizabeth Harding Collection, South Africa, purchased from David M Heller, South Africa, 16th October 1999, where it is dated as Kangxi, c.1700, a copy of the invoice is available.

Cf. For a closely related vessel, see the brown glazed double-gourd wine vessel in the collection of the Beitou Hot Spring Museum in Beitou, Taiwan.

十八世紀早期(可能) 醬釉葫蘆瓶
來源：Jardine 舊藏，南非Mark及Elizabeth Harding 收藏，1999年10月16日購於南非藝術顧問David M Heller (附發票複印件)，當時斷代為約1700，康熙年製。