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•238 The present bottle appears to be from the same enamel workshop
AN ENAMELED STONEWARE SNUFF BOTTLE as a small group in the Bloch collection attributed to “The Jagged
YIXING, 1780-1850 Line Master” (see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
The six-sided bottle is painted in deep brown enamel with a Snuf Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 3,
continuous landscape of two pavilions nestled amidst pine trees Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 959-964, nos. 1457-1459). These bottles all
and towering rocky clifs, all on a cream-colored enamel ground exhibit similar compositions, with thick black outlines and jagged
covering the dark-brown clay body. black lines as details. The present example, decorated solely in
black on the white ground, is unusual within the group.
1√ in. (4.8 cm.) high, glass stopper
The faceted form of the present bottle was no doubt infuenced
$12,000-18,000 by contemporary faceted vessels that were being produced at the
Palace workshops.
PROVENANCE 1780-1850年 宜興紫砂加彩亭臺山水圖鼻煙壺

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2007.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 4606.

Yixing, in Jiangsu province to the west of Shanghai, is associated
with a distinctive stoneware called “purple clay.” The unglazed,
fred clay is usually purplish-brown, but its color can vary from
pale beige to brown to green. Yixing ware has been produced for
nearly a thousand years in the same place, but came to aesthetic
prominence only in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
(during the late Ming dynasty), when the scholar class found it a
suitable material for teapots and other table articles.

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