Bottle ID: 706

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YELLOW, JARLET WITH LOTUS

Date: 1880-1920

Height: 65 mm

A porcelain snuff bottle, of meiping form with rounded shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck with slightly everted mouth, applied on the body and with incised detailing, with lotus leaves, flowers and pods rising from muddy waters, the body covered overall in an ochre glaze, the decoration picked out in green, pink, blue and white, the base with an incised Chenghua nianzhi mark.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection, no.s 399 and 379
Hughes, Michael. C. The Blair Bequest. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum. 2002, p. 233, no. 327
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Mary and George Bloch Collection. Volume 6, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Arts of the Fire, 2008, pp. 740-741, no. 1343 and pp. 847-848, no. 1400.

Provenance:

Cottone Auctions, NY., March 30, 2014, lot 38

With the revitalization of the kilns at Jingdezhen in the latter part of the nineteenth century, came a continued respect for traditional forms together with the use of apochryphal marks. This example illustrates both of these features admirably, with its shape being typical of the snuff pot form that crops up from the 18th century onwards and the Chenghua nianzhi mark that harks back to the glorious times of Ming Dynasty porcelain manufacture.

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