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A PALE LIME-GREEN GLAZED MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF
BOTTLE
Incised two-character Yucheng mark to the base, 1820-1870
Of flattened oviform shape and delicately molded with bamboo gently
swaying in the breeze to one main face and a blossoming prunus tree
on the other, both images extending partly to the narrow sides.
2 7/8in (7cm) high, stopper
$2,000 - 3,000

1820-1870年 淺綠瓷胎模印宋梅紋鼻煙壺 《裕成》款

Provenance:
New York, October 1993

For a discussion on the artist Li Yucheng and illustrations of two
signed examples, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang,
A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch
Collection, Vol. 6, Part 3, Arts of the Fire, pp. 78-783, no’s. 1362 and
1363. The authors note that his works are considerably rarer than
Wang Bingrong’s, who is generally considered as the instigator of this
style of molded porcelain. The second bottle cited, no. 1363, is the
most comparable to ours, though the subjects are different flora, rose
and orchid. Like ours it has the abbreviated name Yucheng, incised to
the base, rather than the full name.

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