Bottle ID: 239

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BLUE AND WHITE CYLINDRICAL

Date: 1800-1850

Height: 76 mm

Porcelain with a transparent clear glaze on cobalt blue; of cylindrical form with a wide mouth and everted, rounded lip and recessed circular foot; painted with a continuous scene of young boys in a pavilion and in the surrounding gardens involved in various pursuits, holding paper lanterns and flying kites; the neck with a band of formalized lingzhi heads, the base with a line border, both in underglaze blue, the interior of the bottle glazed.

Similar Examples:

Lawrence, Clare. Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom - The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1996, pp. 210-211, no. 99.40.
Hughes, Michael C. The Blair Bequest - Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002, p. 229, nos. 318 and 319.
Low, Denis S. K. More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, 2002, p. 211, no. 196.

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.

Snuff bottles should always be considered from the wider vantage of Chinese art and nowhere is this more true than in the area of underglaze blue and white porcelain. Many of the decorative features of this group of bottles occur elsewhere on Chinese porcelain. In the case of this bottle the subject matter of boys at play and flying kites is seen on earlier porcelain from the sixteenth century and was often shown on large ceramic vases.

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