Bottle ID: 00317

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PORCELAIN, FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELS, RECLINING LADY

Date: 1795-1820

Height: 94 mm

Porcelain, in the form of a reclining lady, wearing a loose blue robe with iron-red pants; resting on one elbow and holding an upraised foot with her other hand, her right leg extended, her hair coiled with two flowers; decorated overall in famille rose enamels; the original stopper being the shoe of the lady.

Attributed to Jingde Zhen.

Similar Examples:

Stevens, Bob C. The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, p. 100, no. 319.
Hughes, Michael C. The Blair Bequest - Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002, pp. 218-219, nos. 297, 298 and 299.
Low, Denis S. K. More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, 2002, p. 206, no. 191.
Hall, Robert. Chinese Snuff Bottles VIII, Made in China, Porcelain Snuff Bottles from Jingde Zhen, no. 1.
Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 2010, lot 22, The Joe Grimberg Collection.

Provenance:

Robert Hall

Exhibited:
 

Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007

The Jiaqing period was a time of both consolidation and innovation. During the preceding years, porcelain snuff bottles had been produced predominately at the Imperial Kilns at Jingde Zhen. As the habit of snuff taking became more popular, the demand from outside the Palace multiplied and the potters began to produce new and exciting forms with the manufacturing knowledge they already had. One of the best of these in terms of quality was the group of reclining ladies. In style, they differed strongly from the exquisite standing Imperial porcelain figures of the eighteenth century and seem to have had no precursor other than a tentative influence of the reclining naked females in ivory used as 'physician's models'. The Crane lady is a particularly good example with fine molding, good color tones and little rubbing. It is also satisfying that the original porcelain stopper, modelled as the shoe of the lady, remains together with the bottle.

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