Bottle ID: 710

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COPPER, CLOISONNE, SCROLLING LOTUS

Date: 1750-1800

Height: 45 mm

Cloisonne, of squat oval form, enameled on the front and reverse within the cloisons, with a central yellow scrolling lotus flower-head and scrolling leaves against a turquoise ground, a band of scrolling lingzhi encricling the neck, the base enameled in turquoise, the mouth with a copper collar.

Similar Examples:

Ford, John Gilmore. Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, 1982, pp. 48-49, no. 84
Lawrence, Clare. Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1996, pp. 26-27, no. 7.27
Snuff Bottles - The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum. Volume 47, 2003, p.126, no. 180
Chang Lin-Sheng. Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum. 1991, p. 120, no. 84 (Porcelain)

Provenance:

Asian Art Studio
A private Pennsylvania Collection

 

This bottle with its classic decoration and turquoise colored ground is typical of the type of cloisonne made at the end of the eighteeenth century and into the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is not possible, however, to specify where the bottle was made. Centers such as Beijing and Guangzhou were traditionally known for their cloisonne-making skillls but there is also an intriguing reference which Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz make, in Chinese Cloisonne, The Pierre Uldry Collection to a cloisonne craftsman, Wang Shizong, who worked in Yangzhou, but was famous as far north as Beijing. Whilst it may be convenient to attribute enamel on metal objects, including snuff bottles, to Beijing or Guangzhou, any attribution for a cloisonne piece must surely be circumspect until further research is undertaken.

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