IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A FAMILLE ROSE AND IRON-RED-DECORATED QUADRILOBED SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The bottle is painted in bright famille rose enamels with a scene of Zhang Qian and his attendant sailing down the river in his log boat. The reverse is painted with a scene of the Weaving Maiden and the Oxherd. The narrow sides and neck are painted with decorative floral borders in iron red, the edges picked out in gilding.
2¼ in. (5.8 cm.) high, jadeite stopper, bone spoon

来源

Sotheby's New York, 6 April 1980, lot 8.

出版

Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Winter 1996, front cover.

注意事项

Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. As a convenience to our bidders, we have marked these lots with Y. Please be advised that a purchaser¹s inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute grounds for non-payment or cancellation of the sale. With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S., provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).

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This bottle represents an extremely rare design and shape for one of the Imperial sets from the Jiaqing reign.

The subjects depicted on each side were popular stories that appear regularly on Qing artworks. Zhang Qian was a Han dynasty imperial envoy and traveller. The subject of Zhang Qian in his log boat was a popular theme during the Ming and early Qing periods, and is most often seen in rhinoceros horn carvings. On the other side, Zhinu, the Goddess of Weavers and daughter of the Sun King, looks across the sky at the Oxherd. According to legend, Zhinu was so industrious that her father worried she spent too much time at the loom, so he arranged for her to marry a young man who herded cattle on the banks of the Milky Way. After the marriage Zhinu did not do any weaving at all, so her father separated her from the Oxherd on the other side of the river of stars that was the Milky Way. The two were allowed to meet only once a year, when a flock of magpies forms a bridge across the river of stars to bring the couple together (E.T.C. Werner, A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology, p. 673).