Bottle ID: 788

< Previous page

BLUE, YUCHENG, BAMBOO, PRUNUS

Date: 1820-1860

Height: 70 mm

A porcelain snuff bottle, of flattened, teardrop form, of pale-blue glaze, on one side molded and applied with strands of swaying bamboo, the reverse with a blossoming prunus tree, the indented oval base with an incised two character potter’s mark ‘Yucheng’. 

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 443
Miller, Tony and Humphrey Hui. Elegance in Relief: Carved Porcelain from Jingde Zhen of the 19th to Early 20th Centuries, 2006, pp. 130-131, no. 22

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 685 
From the Collection of Emily Byrne Curtis, New York 
Purchased in New York, October, 1993

 

 

< Back to full list