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Bottle ID: 311
HEXAGONAL FORM
Date: 1800-1860
Height: 56 mm
Stoneware with turquoise enamel, of flattened hexagonal form with vertical facets, a cylindrical neck and recessed hexagonal foot; one side with three panels incised with a poem in draft script about a particular sort of wine and its ability to get guests drunk if served instead of tea, followed by the signature Shaoshan, the reverse uncarved, the foot enameled in turquoise.
Attributed to Yixing.
Similar Examples:
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, Vol. I, p. 425, no. 255.
Low, Denis S. K. More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, 2002, p. 217, no. 202.
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, May 2, 1991, lot 133, Collection of Arthur Gadsby.
Provenance:
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.
Shaoshan was the art name adopted by Shi Dabin, the famous seventeenth-century potter who was one of the legendary masters of the early period of production in Yixing. This name was used thereafter, as Lu Zigang’s was on jade carvings from Suzhou, as a standard sobriquet. Moss points out that although the name was of sufficient renown that its use by several different artists during the early nineteenth century was not out of the question, if the two represent the same workshop then through the J & J example, this one is linked to a group of the more important mid-Qing Yixing bottles known.