A VERY RARE PAINTED LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE
A VERY RARE PAINTED LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, 1740-1800

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A VERY RARE PAINTED LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, 1740-1800
The brown lacquer is applied over the textile core and painted with five copper-hued bats in flight on both sides.
2 1/2 in. (6.52 cm.) high, stopper
來源
The Ko Collection, purchased Tianjin, 1941; sold at Christie's London, 9 October 1974, lot 175
B. T. Lyons
Sold at Sotheby's London, 20 April 1982, lot 161
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.
The J & J Collection; sold at Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lot 15
出版
JICSBS, June 1978, p. 51, no. 251
Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, New York/Tokyo, 1993, vol. II, no. 308
展覽
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1977, pp. 105 and 130, no. 251
Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Snuff Bottles from China. The J & J Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1996-1997
The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, The Miniature World: An exhibition of snuff bottles from the J & J Collection, Taipei, 2002
Poly Art Museum, The Art of Chinese Snuff Bottle: Selected Snuff Bottle Collection of James Li, Beijing, 2003, p. 126, fig. a

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The five bats on each side of the bottle are an extremely fortuitous image, as they provide rebuses for both huge good fortune and for the Five Blessings of longevity, health, wealth, love of virtue and a peaceful death. The bats here are depicted in varying postures of flight, and it is significant that a few are shown upside down because in Chinese, an upside-down bat provides a homophone for 'happiness has arrived'.

Although the style of the lacquer here is typical of Fuzhou, it appears that it was adopted at Court and a range of similar wares made Imperially during the Qianlong period and the height of the Palace workshops. Compare with three lacquer snuff bottles from the Imperial Collection in Beijing, made in very similar style with gold lacquer decorative elements on a brown ground, the first with bats on a double-gourd form, the second with a leaping carp on a foliate-form bottle and the third in the shape of a double-fish, illustrated by Zhu Peichu and Xia Gengqi (eds.), Biyanhu Shihua, History of Snuff Bottles, pl. 52.

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