Pair of Chinese porcelain square bottles, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua), Kangxi reign.

Two Chinese export porcelain square bottles with covers, decorated with four different panels of flowers of the seasons in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua), the covers with a mirror image (very unusual at the time) biscuit mythical dog knobs, base with the four character mark of Chenghua in under-glaze cobalt blue but from c. 1700, Kangxi reign, Qing dynasty, h. 26,3 cm, 10 1/8 in. 1.9108

Illustrated: 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2014/2015, cat. 18.

Literature: A Catalogue of Blue and White Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson, London 1878, plate XVII, cat. 202 for a similar single vase with different decoration and cover also with an unglazed dog.

中國外銷瓷青花帶蓋四季花卉方瓶兩隻, 兩只瓶蓋上的素燒神犬鈕互成鏡像 (這在當時實屬罕見), 器底四字青花成化款, 約1700年, 清康熙, 高26.3 釐米, 10 1/8 英吋。

插图: 《百年中国外销瓷》 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2014/2015, 目录 18。

參考文獻：《Henry Thompson爵士收藏青花瓷著錄》，1878年倫敦出版，參見圖版17編號202 一相似花瓶，雖紋飾不同但蓋子同樣帶有未施釉的狗形鈕。