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Lot Essay
This is a fine example of a broad group of enameled Yixing bottles dating from the first half of the nineteenth century and all, apparently, painted by the same workshop.
Compare a very similar bottle in R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, p. 372, no. 243. See, also, a bottle with the same subject, in reverse, op. cit., p. 258, no. 199.
For a similarly decorated bottle by the same hand, see G. Tsang and H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1978, p. 87, no. 121. See, also, another very similar bottle, painted by the same hand, illustrated in B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 339.
Compare a very similar bottle in R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, p. 372, no. 243. See, also, a bottle with the same subject, in reverse, op. cit., p. 258, no. 199.
For a similarly decorated bottle by the same hand, see G. Tsang and H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1978, p. 87, no. 121. See, also, another very similar bottle, painted by the same hand, illustrated in B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 339.