Details
A MOLDED PORCELAIN BOTTLE
1800-1900
Of flattened pear shape, molded and applied with a continuous river landscape a figure bending before a small hut below pine and willow with a mountain backdrop, glazed with green splashes on a white glaze in imitation of jadeite, stopper
2.1/8in. (5.3cm.) high
Provenance
Gerd Lester Collection, New York, 1982

Lot Essay

For a similar bottle from the Mei Ling Collection, see Sotheby's, New York, 15 March 1984, lot 19.

For a more rounded porcelain example also imitating jadeite see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Tokyo, 1993, pp. 419-420, no. 251.

For a group of signed and unsigned bottles of similar type clearly belonging to the same group, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pp. 246-253, nos. 187-194.

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