AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-GROUND PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN BLACK AND OF THE PERIOD (1838-1850)

Details

AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-GROUND PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN BLACK AND OF THE PERIOD (1838-1850)
The bottle is decorated on one side with a man fishing while standing on the trunk of a willow tree, and on the reverse with a poem that refers to the scene followed by 'first month of summer of the wuxu year inscribed at the office of the Superintendent of Customs at Xunyang by Liu Muzhi', all in cobalt blue that appears black under a soft yellow glaze.
2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance

Robert Hall, London, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1623.

Exhibited

Boston, International Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

Lot Essay

This bottle is very similar to one illustrated by Moss, Graham and Tsang in A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 2008, Volume 6, Part 2, pp. 656-57, no. 1301, where it is noted that this unusual color scheme and decoration was used for a "small group of bottles produced for the court during the late Daoguang reign."

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