Bottle ID: 414

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PLAIN ROUND FLATTENED

Date: 1800-1860

Height: 48 mm

Stoneware, of purplish-brown color; of flattened rounded form with a cylindrical neck and concave circular foot, the interior enameled in pale turquoise.

Attributed to Yixing.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 364
Crane Collection nos. 508 and 475
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, 1993, Vol. I, p. 427, no. 257, pp. 428-429, no. 258.
Sotheby's, New York, December 2, 1985, lot 12.
Christie's, New York, September 19, 2007, lot 650, The Meriem Collection.

Provenance:

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

Although plain Yixing was common on refined wares for the literati, particularly teapots, it is the exception in the snuff bottle world, where slip-decorated or enameled bottles vastly outnumber their plain counterparts. There is a series of plain Yixing snuff bottles signed by one early-nineteenth century artist but, apart from his works, they are relatively rarer than their decorated cousins.

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