A BLACK-ENAMELLED BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD, 1795-1799

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A BLACK-ENAMELLED BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD, 1795-1799
The bottle is of flattened, high-shouldered form and is finely painted in black enamel on both sides with scenes of a scholar and his attendant strolling in a rocky landscape with pine trees. The narrow sides and neck are painted in underglaze blue with stylized floral bands. Together with a quatrefoil dish, 1820-1880, painted with four stylized ruyi heads joined by a central oval and issuing scrolling vines.
2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm.) high, coral stopper with faux-pearl finial (2)

来源

Snuff bottle: Gerd Lester, New York, 1981

出版

Snuff bottle: Noëlle King O'Connor, "Water: Changing Imagery in Chinese Art," Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Autumn 1994, p. 10, fig. 15.

展览

Snuff bottle: Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 13.

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Finely painted in black enamel, the scenes on this bottle were likely inspired by literati ink paintings. a related bottle dated 1765-1799 painted with similar scenes is illustrated by Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 2, Arts of the Fire, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 358-9, no. 1159, where the authors note, that this unusual style, "seems perhaps a little more likely to have come from the latter part of the Qianlong reign, while the emperor was still closely involved in developing new types and designs of snuff bottles and still vitally interested in the art form. His son does not appear to have shared his love of innovation in art and matched neither his creativity nor output." The authors base their dating of the Bloch bottle on a related bottle in the Imperial Collection that bears a Qianlong gold-enameled reign mark.