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TWO BLUE AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED
PORCELAIN ‘FILIAL PIETY” SNUFF BOTTLES
1820-1900
Each of tall slightly tapering cylindrical shape with short waisted necks
and everted rims and each divided, around the bottle, into twelve
panels illustrating a total of twenty-four paragons of filial piety, the
neck with peony decoration, the neck interiors with the addition of
two blue and white concentric bands, the base with butterfly and beet
decoration.
3 1/2in (9cm) high, stoppers
$1,500 - 2,500
1820-1900年 青花釉里紅孝子故事圖鼻煙壺兩隻
The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety were first enumerated by Guo
Jijing in a Yuan dynasty text, although they derive from much older
anecdotes of men and women who stood as exemplars of Confucian
virtue. Whereas other bottles illustrating Paragons of Filial Piety are
extant (see Michael C. Hughes The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin,
Chinese Snuff Bottles, p. 276 no 213) it is rare to have all twenty-four
individuals illustrated on two bottles.
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