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QING DYNASTY, 1830-1880
Details
AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PORCELAIN ‘WOODCUTTER’ SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 1830-1880
The bottle is decorated with a landscape with a woodcutter carrying his kindling on a pole, beneath the moon inscribed yue ‘moon’, the base inscribed Wang yue si fu ‘Gazing at the moon brings to mind one’s axe’. Together with an underglaze-blue and copper-red ‘figures’ snuff dish inscribed with a private collector’s mark.
Bottle: 3 ¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high, gilt-bronze stopper;
Dish: 1 ¾ in. (4.5 cm.) diam. (2)
QING DYNASTY, 1830-1880
The bottle is decorated with a landscape with a woodcutter carrying his kindling on a pole, beneath the moon inscribed yue ‘moon’, the base inscribed Wang yue si fu ‘Gazing at the moon brings to mind one’s axe’. Together with an underglaze-blue and copper-red ‘figures’ snuff dish inscribed with a private collector’s mark.
Bottle: 3 ¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high, gilt-bronze stopper;
Dish: 1 ¾ in. (4.5 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Bottle: John Sinclair Collection, California
Clare Chu, October 2010
Dish: The Arthur Gadsby Collection, Hong Kong, January 2013
Clare Chu, October 2010
Dish: The Arthur Gadsby Collection, Hong Kong, January 2013
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