Bottles with a round body and a long, slightly flared neck with a bulge in the middle. The body with human figures in a garden setting with plants and rocks, the shoulder with scrolls. Around the neck upright and hanging stiff leaves, separated by a figural scene on the bulge.
The decoration on these bottles is in the Chinese Transitional style in a rather simplified manner with doll-like figures and stiff, fir-like trees. This decoration of stiff leaves with sharp points is also used on an early bottle in the Ashmolean museum. The shape with its bulge in the neck may have been copied from Chinese Transitional bottles, which in turn derive their shape from Islamic prototypes.
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