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A MOLDED PORCELAIN ‘POCKET WATCH’ SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1780-1800

Each convex side is molded and painted in black as the face of a
watch, with the ‘metal hands’ encircled by the minutes in roman and
arabic numerals, and the shoulders are molded with mask and ring
handles.
22 in. (5.6 cm.) high, metal stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE:

Simpson Galleries Estate Auction, 5 May 1996.
Ann and John Hamilton, Houston, Texas; Sotheby’s New York, 27
March 2003, lot 328.
The Linda Riddel Hoffman Collection of Snuff Bottles; Bonham’s
New York, 22 March 2011, lot 40.

1780-1800年 模印白地懷錶式鼻煙壺

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AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
332 JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1850-1920
(two views)
The bottle is molded as the rolled pages of a book about pottery
98 making at Jingdezhen, and is painted with two pages from the
book, one an illustration depicting a farmer carrying baskets on a
pole over his shoulders as he approaches a water wheel and shed in
a mountainous landscape, the other a page of text, the two pages
separated by the edges of further pages.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, agate stopper

$2,500-3,500

PROVENANCE:

Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5204.

LITERATURE:

Robert Hall, The SB Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles XV, London,
2011, no. 25.

The text painted on the bottle is from a book about pottery making at
Jingdezhen by Lan Pu, Jingdezhen tao lu, frst published during the Jiaqing
period. The present example is part of a small group of bottles decorated
with different scenes from the book. For a discussion of this group, and
a related bottle with a scene of a potter sitting at his wheel, see Moss,
Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George
Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 3, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 868, 869, no.
1411.

1850-1920年 模印五彩「景德鎮陶錄」書卷式鼻煙壺