**A BLUE-AND-WHITE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDE ZHEN KILNS, 1810-1870

Details

**A BLUE-AND-WHITE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDE ZHEN KILNS, 1810-1870
Of tapering cylindrical form with recessed foot and canted shoulder, decorated with a continuous river landscape, with a fisherman seated on the river bank opposite pavilions nestled amidst rocks and trees on the opposite shore, with mountains in the distance, all between double-line borders with a neck-band of formalized lingzhi-heads and dots, carnelian stopper with vinyl collar
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Robert Kleiner, Boston Convention, 1991.

Lot Essay

This bottle belongs to a group of a large number of cylindrical porcelain bottles decorated in underglaze blue which became popular in the mid-Qing period. Porcelain became the ideal cheap material from which to produce large quantities of well-made containers decorated with meaningful designs for a vastly growing audience of snuff-takers as the habit spread to the whole population from its roots at Court. See another bottle painted with a landscape and with a similar neck border, illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, p. 95, no. 163; and one illustrated by R. Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles. Masterpieces from the Reitberg Museum, Zurich, pp. 28-9, no. 8.

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