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A YELLOW-GLAZED COBALT-DECORATED PORCELAIN SNUFF This bottle bears an identical inscription and near identical painting to
BOTTLE another illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang,
Daoguang four-character cobalt mark and a poem cyclically dated A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch
wuxu year, corresponding to 1838 Collection, Vol. 6, Part 2, Arts of the Fire, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 656-
Of compressed tapering rectangular shape, painted in cobalt that 657, no. 1301. See also a bottle very closely related to this group
appears black with a man fishing while balanced on the trunk of a depicting the same scene of a fisherman and willow on one side and
willow tree on one face and with a poetic inscription describing the two magpies amidst rockwork and a prunus tree on the other, formerly
scene, with the date and followed by ‘inscribed at the office of the in the Edward T. Chow Collection, Sotheby’s, New York, 3 November
Superintendent of Customs at Xunyang by Liu Muzhi’ on the reverse 1982, lot 104. It was catalogued as bearing a four-character studio
side; stopper. name, not identified, but translated as ‘made in the cacia tree pavilion’.
2 1/8in (5.5cm) high
Another bottle listed by Moss et al., op. cit., p.657 as from the Piper
$4,500 - 6,500 collection (unpublished) listed as depicting magpies and willow, is
signed by an individual - Gui Tingshou zhi (made by Gui Tingshou).
道光 詩文署戊戌年（1838） 1838-1850
黃地瓷胎氧化藍彩漁人垂釣鼻煙壺 《道光年製》款

Provenance:
Robert Hall, London, 1994 Ruth and Carl Barron
Christie’s, New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part I, 16
September 2015, lot 215

Literature:
Hugh Moss, The Barron Collection, illustrated handlist, ICSBS
Convention 2008, p. 42, no. 1623

Exhibited:
ICSBS Convention, Boston, 23-26 September 2008

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