AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1850-1920

Details

AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1850-1920
The bottle is molded as the rolled pages of a book about pottery making at Jingdezhen, and is painted with two pages from the book, one an illustration depicting a farmer carrying baskets on a pole over his shoulders as he approaches a water wheel and shed in a mountainous landscape, the other a page of text, the two pages separated by the edges of further pages.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, agate stopper

Provenance

Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5204.

Literature

Robert Hall, The SB Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles XV, London, 2011, no. 25.

Lot Essay

The text painted on the bottle is from a book about pottery making at Jingdezhen by Lan Pu, Jingdezhen tao lu, first published during the Jiaqing period. The present example is part of a small group of bottles decorated with different scenes from the book. For a discussion of this group, and a related bottle with a scene of a potter sitting at his wheel, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 3, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 868, 869, no. 1411.

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