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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kardinalisimo, post: 140255, member: 118&quot;]That&#039;s what I am saying, Japanese borrowed that akae style or whatever they call it.</p><p>Not sure what is &#039;provincial&#039; porcelain but I guess the one made by local potters for the people as opposed to the Imperial wares.</p><p>Again, the shape is not traditional Chinese. But transitional period makes sense. During that transition Ming-Qing, they did a lot of export and some of the pieces were with unortodox shapes, adapted to the Western and Japanese demands. However , they still kept the traditional decoration.</p><p>The Dutch market was huge but this bottle is very likely for the Japanese one.</p><p>I hope someone translates that old script, there could be some useful info like cyclical date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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