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AN YIXING STONEWARE SNUFF BOTTLE
1810-1850
Of shield shape, the brown body decorated in a pale beige slip with
a continuous stylized landscape with a figure in a boat in a river
landscape with trees, bridges and rockwork; stopper.
2 3/8in (6cm) high

$1,800 - 2,000
1810-1850 宜興陶胎堆料山水人物鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Sotheby’s, New York, 6 April 1990, lot 19

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 45

See Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the
Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. 1, p. 421, no. 252, for
a bottle similarly painted with an overhanging cliff on one side and for
further discussion of Yixing stoneware bottles.

See also another of more spherical form from the Quentin Loh Sze On
Collection, illustrated by Vanessa F. Holden, Chinese Snuff Bottles,
NUS Museums, Singapore, 2002, p. 66, no. 270.

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