Bottle ID: 205

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WITH BLUE ENAMEL

Date: 1820-1860

Height: 59 mm

Stoneware, dark brown, of ovoid form, enameled in cobalt blue and white with a continuous scene of a pavilion nestled beside an immense rock amidst pine beneath stylized clouds; continued on the reverse with a pavilion in clouds and pine; a fisherman below on a lake, the birds flying beneath the clouds and the sun.

Attributed to Yixing.

 

Similar Examples:

Low, Denis S. K. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect III, 2007, p. 258, no. 225.
The Art of the Yixing Potter - The K. S. Low Collection, 1990, p. 109, no. 64.
Sotheby's, New York, July 1, 1985, lot 12. The Kardos Collection.

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.
Robert Hall
Susan Hacker

Yixing snuff bottles can generally be divided into three groups; undecorated of varying forms, slip-decorated and enameled. The enamel group, into which this example would fit, often uses color tones of green and blue, emulating the green-blue landscapes of Tang Dynasty painting. This bottle however is enameled, simply but with great strength in vivid tones of blue against the brownish-purple clay. The enameled teapot in the K. S. Lo Collection mentioned here provides some comparison with the bottle in its use of blue enamel; however the style of decoration is very different. The bottle is more akin to slip-decorated examples which can be dated to the late eighteenth century in its depiction of mythical landscapes, than to the over-exaggerated European-style ware of the teapot.

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