JINGDEZHEN KILNS, SIGNED CHEN GUOZHI, 1820-1860

Details

A GREEN-SPLASHED WHITE-ENAMELED MOLDED AND CARVED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, SIGNED CHEN GUOZHI, 1820-1860
The bottle is molded and carved on one side with a boy riding a buffalo and playing a flute beneath a budding willow tree. The reverse is molded and carved with an inscription describing the scene.
2 1⁄8 in. (5.3 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper

Provenance

Gerd Lester Collection, New York, 1981.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.

Literature

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 172-173, no. 73.

Conditions of sale

Brought to you by

Margaret Gristina (葛曼琪) Senior Specialist, VP

asianartny@christies.com +1 212 636 2180

Lot Essay

The inscription can be translated as, "With this short flute producing hardly a tune, blowing and humming randomly I pass the dune."

For a similar porcelain bottle signed Chen Guozhi see The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Sotheby’s New York, 14 September 2010, lot 126.

More from Rivers and Mountains Far from the World: Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Rachelle R. Holden Collection

View All