A RARE BLUE AND RUBY ENAMELLED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN, 1770-1830

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A RARE BLUE AND RUBY ENAMELLED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN, 1770-1830
The exterior of the bottle is decorated with a continuous scene of a blue-enamelled five-clawed dragon writhing amidst ruby-enamelled formalised clouds in pursuit of a flaming pearl.
2 5/8 in. (6.55 cm.) high, stopper

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby's London, 9 June 1981, lot 118
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.
The J & J Collection; sold at Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lot 19

Literature

Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, New York/Tokyo, 1993, vol. I, no. 214.

Exhibited

Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Snuff Bottles from China. The J & J Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1996-1997
The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, The Miniature World: An exhibition of snuff bottles from the J & J Collection, Taipei, 2002
Poly Art Museum, The Art of Chinese Snuff Bottle: Selected Snuff Bottle Collection of James Li, Beijing, 2003

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Lot Essay

A similar bottle in the Hong Kong Museum of Art is illustrated in Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1978, no. 114. Two other examples decorated entirely in ruby enamel, have been published: one offered by Butterfield and Butterfield, 7 November 1991, lot 969; and the other illustrated in Zhongguo Biyanhu Zhenshang, no. 125.

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