Bottle ID: 400

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CYLINDRICAL SQUAT, TEA DUST GLAZE

Date: 1780-1820

Height: 58 mm

Porcelain, of squat cylindrical form, the shoulders sloping to a slightly everted mouth, with a recessed circular foot, covered overall in a monochrome “tea dust” glaze, the base with a partly legible incised four-character reign mark.
Attributed to Jingde Zhen.

Similar Examples:

Christie's New York, 03.19.2008, lot 255, The Meriam Collection
Christie's New York, 03.21.2002, lot 70, The Blanche B. Exstein Collection

Provenance:

Asian Art Studio

Monochrome glazes are fairly common on porcelain pieces, but much rarer on snuff bottles. Teadust glazed wares were made as early as the Tang Dynasty produced in the kilns at Yaozhou, however the range of wares was very small and included only ewers and small cups. With the increase in experimentation under the Yongzheng Emperor at the Imperial Kilns the variety of wares increased dramatically and it was not long before teadust glazes were produced outside the Imperial Kilns. By the Qianlong period and beyond this was a highly popular, if unpredictable, glaze that was made in a range of colors with interesting textures. Snuff bottles however were not produced until the latter part of the eighteenth century and continued into the nineteenth century. The scarcity of these bottles may have been due to the thickness of the glaze in relation to the size of the bottle.

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