Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, Jiaqing iron-red seal mark and of the period, 17961820 7cm high.
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Treasury 6, no. 1246
瓷胎粉彩人物風景鼻煙壺 景德鎮官窯,鐵紅嘉慶年款,1796~1820
Another of Eight
Famille rose enamels on colourless glaze on cobalt on porcelain; with a flat lip and slightly convex foot; painted with a continuous garden scene, with three scholars seated around a rectangular table in front of two trees, one blossoming, a red lantern set on a pole beside the table, while one servant on the opposite side of the bottle fans a brazier with a kettle on it and another holds a tray with a cup beneath a lantern suspended between two flowering tree branches; the scene framed top and bottom in underglaze-blue, detailed in gold enamel, with a formalized design of a band of lotus petals around the base and lingzhi around the shoulders beneath a neck-band of flower heads, the foot inscribed in iron-red seal script, Jiaqing nian zhi (Made during the Jiaqing period); the lip painted gold, the interior glazed Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, 17961820 Height: 7 cm Mouth/lip: 0.64/1.74 cm Stopper: gold enamel on colourless glaze on porcelain, moulded with a formalized chrysanthemum design; not original Condition: very small chip on the underside of the lip at the upper neck-rim (0.50 x 0.25 cm) not very well restored; otherwise, in extraordinary condition with practically no surface wear. General relative condition: except for the chips, kiln condition. Stopper: twentieth century
Provenance: alia Baylin Sotheby's, New York, 3 October 1980, lots 98 and 99 Hugh M. Moss Ltd., (1980) Belfort Collection
Published: JICSBS, March 1976, p. 16, figs. 87, 88, and 89 Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty 1978, p. 84, no. 113 Jutheau 1980, p. 88, fig. 2 Très précieuses tabatières chinoises, p. 5, figs. 7 and 8 Kleiner 1987, no. 222 Galeries Lafayette 1990, p. 8, no. 4 Kleine Schätze aus China, cover and p. 9 Agrar Post, Vienna, 9 June 1993, p. 20 CA Live, Die Mitarbeiterzeitung der Creditanstalt, no. 3, 1993, p. 11 Kleiner, Yang, and Shangraw 1994, no. 142 Kleiner 1995, no. 201 Treasury 6, no. 1246
Exhibited: Hong Kong Museum of Art, OctoberDecember 1978 L'Arcade Chaumet, Paris, June 1982 Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, October 1987 Galeries Lafayette, Paris, April 1990 Creditanstalt, Vienna, MayJune 1993 Hong Kong Museum of Art, MarchJune 1994 National Museum of Singapore, November 1994February 1995 British Museum, London, JuneOctober 1995 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, JulyNovember 1997
Commentary: This is the second bottle in the Bloch Collection from the famous set of eight, discussed under lot 107 (Treasury 6, no. 1245), the commentary for which lot applies equally to this example. The symbolism differs, however. Here the two attendants preparing tea underneath a wind (feng)-blown lantern (deng) imply '[May you live in] abundance' based on a pun on the term for 'bumper harvest' (fengdeng).
之來源: C. F. Turner 蘇富比,倫敦,1970年10月23日,拍賣品號239 蘇富比,倫敦,1986年5月6日,拍賣品號285 文獻﹕ Kleiner 1987, 編號310 Illustrated London News, 1990年夏期,頁49 Orient Express Magazine, 1990年夏期,頁49 Prestige, 1990年夏期,頁49 Galeries Lafayette 1990, 頁11,編號2 Arts of Asia, 1990年9 月~10月,頁98 Kleine Schätze aus China, 頁10 Kleiner 1994, 頁42,插圖24,下右 Kleiner 1995, 編號433 Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch(折疊式插圖印刷品),Israel Museum, 耶路撒冷,1997年7 月 Treasury 5, 編號748 展覽﹕ 香港藝術館,1978年10 月至12月 L'Arcade Chaumet, 巴黎、布魯塞爾、阿姆斯特丹,1982年6月~8月 Sydney L. Moss Ltd, 倫敦, 1987年10 月 香港藝術館,1994年3 月~6月 National Museum of Singapore, 1994年11月~1995年1月 大英博物館, 倫敦, 1995年6月~10 月 Israel Museum, 耶路撒冷, 1997年7月~11月 佳士得,倫敦,1999年