Porcelain Bottle With Cobalt Blue Decoration On A White Background, China, 17th Century. Transitional Period.

Square-section bottle in hard porcelain. Figures in a mountainous lake landscape, painted in cobalt blue on a white background. The drawings are quickly drawn like caricatures, the artist going for the essential, a specificity of this period. Very fine quality, slightly bluish glaze, beautifully fired, luminous cobalt blue. This type of bottle must have contained wine or alcohol. Note that it is much more difficult to create a cube-shaped porcelain, as the many angles are subject to shrinkage and deformation during drying and firing, resulting in numerous accidents and deformations. Perfect condition, no chips or cracks, no repairs or grinding. Firing defects: a crack under the base filled by the glaze, mineral adherence on the lip and a stain of ferruginous impurities on the heel. China, late Ming dynasty, Transition period. 17° century. Height: 245mm