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A vintage hand-painted porcelain vase from Jingdezhen — the Jiangxi kiln city long understood as China's porcelain capital. The form is a poetry bottle: tall, slender-shouldered, intended as both vessel and ground for inscription.
One face carries a finely painted famille rose landscape — mountains, scattered trees, the soft enamel palette that has defined Jingdezhen ware for centuries. The reverse is given to calligraphy: a black-ink poem rendered in traditional script, accompanied by the artist's red signature seals. The translation reads, approximately: "I am in the midst, smilingly welcoming the verdant mountain view; when will I be back in my home mountain?"
The base bears a manufacturing mark consistent with Jingdezhen export production, likely dating to the mid-20th century. A piece that sits as comfortably alone on a bookshelf as it does grouped with other ceramics.
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