H.: 55 cm
Provenance: Art dealer Bernheimer, Munich.
Literature:
• La Porcelaine de Chine, by O. du Sartel, Paris 1881, p.134, fig. 73 for a similar one;
• Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, by C.J.A. Jörg, London 1997, p. 166, cat. 182 for a similar bottle;
• Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, by A. du Boulay, p. 225, cat. 10 for an identical bottle;
• A History and Description of Chinese Porcelain, by C. Monkhouse, NY 1901, p. 105, cat. 33 for a similar vase;
• Chinese Porcelain: Periods of K’ang Hsi, Yung Chéng and Ch’ien Lung, by W.B. Honey, London 1927, plate 28 for a similar piece decorated in under-glaze cobalt blue;
• Chinese Porcelain, by A. du Boulay, Hong Kong 1963, p. 81 for a similar piece;
• Porzellan aus China und Japan, die Porzellangalerie der Landgrafen von Hessen-Kassel, 1990 catalogue for Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, pp. 344/345, cat. 126 for a single vase 46 cm high dated 17th/18thcentury;
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a very similar bottle with a metal mount on the neck bequeathed by John D. Rockefeller J. in 1960, under the number 61.200.25;
• Chinese Art, by S.W. Bushell, London 1906, vol. II, plate 32 for a similar vase with a slightly different decoration.
