Bottle ID: 0075

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OVOID WITH ENAMELED PANELS

Date: 1821-1850

Height: 61 mm

Stoneware, of flattened ovoid form, the front and reverse with an enameled inset panel, depicting on one side pine trees and pavilions in a mountainous landscape, the reverse with a figure in a sampan amidst a similar landscape; the panels with a plain stoneware surround.

Attributed to Yixing.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 262
Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., London, June 10, 1974, lot 52, The Ko Family Collection Part IV.
Stevens, Bob C. The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, p. 101, no. 262.
The Art of the Yixing Potter - The K. S. Low Collection, 1990, p. 99, no. 54.
The Muse Collection, Los Angeles CA
The Art of the Yixing Potter. The K. S. Lo Collection, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware. Hong Kong, p. 99, no. 54, 1990.

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.
The Monimar Collection
Clare Lawrence Ltd.
Hugh Moss Ltd.

A similar enameled stoneware bottle, which is published as one of Y.F. Yang's advertisements, is in the Muse Collection, Los Angeles, California. The incised inscriptions running down each side of the bottle include a legible potter's seal and a date of 1849, the last year of the Daoguang period. Since there is no reason to dispute the authenticity of this bottle, the dating of this specific group can be narrowed to Daoguang, and possibly late in the period. Interestingly, the K. S. Lo Collection in the Flagstaff Museum in Hong Kong houses an enameled teapot both with the hallmark of Prince Ding - Xingyouheng Tang and a specific date of 1849, the same date as the snuff bottle mentioned above. The seal is that of the potter Chen Ming Yuan who worked in the Daoguang period producing teaware and other scholars' items, including snuff bottles.

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