A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED AND RELIEF-MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

細節

A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED AND RELIEF-MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN, 1750-1850

The flattened bottle in the form of a compressed double-gourd and without a defined foot, applied on each side with a relief molded design of an archaistic kui dragon scroll motif below a Shou character on the upper portion, all against an enameled floral scroll bearing large flowerheads, stopper
2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm.) high

來源

Hugh M. Moss Ltd.
Elisabeth and Ladislas Kardos
Sotheby's New York, 1 July 1985, lot 9
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.

出版

Chinese Snuff Bottles No. 5, p. 73, fig. 85
100 Selected Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, back cover and no. 72
JICSBS, Autumn 1989, front cover
Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J&J Collection, vol. 1, no. 232

展覽

Vancouver Centennial Exhibition, October 1969
Christie's London, October 1987
Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003

拍品專文

This extremely rare and very striking bottle combines a number of unusual features. The shape, based on a double gourd, is well balanced and unusual in its flattened, waistless form. The combination of simply glazed relief designs surrounded by enamels is very rare.

The symbolism on this bottle is also multi-layered. The shape which is suggestive of a double-gourd, is associated with Daoism, as the double-gourd is the attribute of the immortal Li Tieguai. The Shou symbol on the upper portion is symbolic of longevity. The unusually complex angular scroll-body of the kui dragon is reminiscent of the 18th-century predilection with archaism.

Two related porcelain bottles, each molded in relief with a stylized shou character set against a densely enameled ground, are in the collection of Denis Low and are illustrated in R. Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Singapore 1999, pp. 163-64, nos. 140-141.