The Dragon King’s Wrath

Jingdezhen, 1830 – 1890
Height: 8.2 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.85/1.20 cm
Stopper: glass, carved with a coiled chi dragon; glass collar

Provenance:
John Sinclair Collection
Clare Chu, October 2010

Published:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part Two, Non-Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts.

Famillé rose enamels on colourless glaze on white porcelain; with a wide mouth, convex lip and recessed flat foot surrounded by a protruding convex foot rim; painted with a continuous illustration of the legend of the Dragon King’s theft of the water from Beijing during the Yongle period, showing Gao Liang riding his horse and with his lance at the ready in hot pursuit of the Dragon King and his wife disguised as a man and woman pushing a cart with jars of water, their true identity shown by vapour rising from each with a dragon in it, the foot and interior glazed