**AN UNUSUAL ENAMELED STONEWARE SNUFF BOTTLE

YIXING, 1790-1840

細節

**AN UNUSUAL ENAMELED STONEWARE SNUFF BOTTLE
YIXING, 1790-1840
Of compressed ovoid form with flat lip and recessed concave foot, one main side decorated with a Buddhist lion with two brocade balls tied with ribbons, clouds and flames, the other main side with a prunus tree bearing large turquoise blossoms and buds rising from blue grass, all reserved on a finely crackled off-white ground applied to a Yixing body, the interior also enameled in off-white, stained agate stopper with garnet finial and vinyl collar
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

來源

Paula Hallett.
Hugh Moss Ltd.

出版

The Brown Stonewares of the Yixing Kilns. The Carol Potter Peckham Collection, p. 65, fig. vi, center.

展覽

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Vancouver Museum, The Brown Stonewares of the Yixing Kilns. The Carol Potter Peckham Collection, 1992.

拍品專文

Refer to the footnote for lot 641 for a discussion on enameled Yixing bottles.

It is extremely rare to find an enameled Yixing bottle decorated with a Buddhist lion. However, there is an example of the same shape, and with very similar treatment of the ruyi-head-shaped clouds and flames, but with a single flying dragon, illustrated by B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Chinese Snuff Bottles, no. 348. That bottle most certainly comes from the same workshop and probably the same hand as the present bottle.

With both enameled and plain Yixing bottles, it was commonplace to enamel the inside surface. Shifting connoisseurship among snuff-takers in the mid-Qing period led to a preference for shiny interiors to prevent the loss of moisture from the snuff, which is probably why many Yixing enameled snuff bottles of the period were enameled inside as well.