White Lions
Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, 1796-1820
Height: 6.3 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.6/1.91 cm
Stopper: porcelain, of formalized chrysanthemum form painted with red and gold pigment
Provenance:
John Ruckman collection, Doylestown, Pa
Charles V. Swain Collection
RareArt, New York, September 2012
White glaze on white porcelain; of compressed apple shape with a waisted cylindrical neck, flat lip and protruding, concave, oval foot; moulded with a continuous design of nine Buddhist lions with five brocaded balls set against an undercut ground of formalized clouds set between a band of formalized lingzhi-heads above a band of raised dots and a shoulder band of formalized lingzhi-heads beneath a band of continuous leiwen (‘thunder pattern’), with a raised-dot border above, covered overall, except for the edge of the footrim and the lip, with white enamel or glaze, the foot inscribed in iron-red seal script 嘉慶年製Jiaqing nian zhi (Made during the Jiaqing period), the lip with gold enamel, the interior unglazed.
