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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-GROUND
PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK
IN BLACK AND OF THE PERIOD (1838-1850)

The bottle is decorated on one side with a man fshing while
standing on the trunk of a willow tree, and on the reverse with a
poem that refers to the scene followed by ‘frst month of summer
of the wuxu year inscribed at the offce of the Superintendent of
Customs at Xunyang by Liu Muzhi’, all in cobalt blue that appears
black under a soft yellow glaze.
2¿ in. (5.5 cm.) high, glass stopper

$1,400-1,800

PROVENANCE:

Robert Hall, London, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 1623.

EXHIBITED:

Boston, International Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron
Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

This bottle is very similar to one illustrated by Moss, Graham and Tsang in
A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: the Mary and George Bloch Collection,
Hong Kong, 2008, Volume 6, Part 2, pp. 656-57, no. 1301, where it is
noted that this unusual color scheme and decoration was used for a “small
group of bottles produced for the court during the late Daoguang reign.”

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