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• Treasury 6, no. 1339
  
  瓷胎畫粉彩童子形鼻煙壺
  景德鎮， 1810～1860
  
  An enamelled porcelain 'boy' snuff bottle
  
  Green, iron-red, aubergine, and black enamels on colourless glaze on porcelain; moulded in the form of a young boy wearing a child's apron (doudu) covering his chest and abdomen to just above his groin and bracelets on both wrists and ankles, holding a peach, the stubbly, shaved head painted in a thin aubergine enamel, the underside of the feet glazed; the interior unglazed
  Jingdezhen, 1810–1860
  Height: 9.45 cm
  Mouth: 0.5 cm
  Stopper: coral
  
  Condition: End of the penis broken off; otherwise, kiln condition
  
  Provenance:
  Dwight C. Harris
  Christie's, London, 13 November, 1961, lot 10
  Lydia Tovey
  Sotheby's, London, 28 April 1987, lot 650
  
  Published:
  JICSBS, Summer 1987, p. 28
  Kleiner, Yang, and Shangraw 1994, no. 158
  Treasury 6, no. 1339
  
  Exhibited:
  Hong Kong Museum of Art, March–June 1994
  National Museum of Singapore, November 1994–February 1995
  
  This rare model of a boy holding a peach is distinguished by the size of the head and the adult-like face. Despite the face, his garb is definitely of a type reserved for children, so the exposure of his genitalia would not raise eyebrows in most parts of the world.
  
  The colours are drawn from the famille verte palette, and the overall feeling of the child is somewhat similar to a group of well-known pairs of boys made in large quantities during the Kangxi period, mostly, it seems, for export to Europe. If such figures were the inspiration for this bottle, it is a good rationale for the use of the traditional palette. The use of a very thin wash of aubergine to depict the shaven head is both unusual and remarkably effective. The enamel is so diluted that the individual grains of finely ground glass can be seen in a wash of palest purple, making for an ideal depiction of stubbly hair.
  
  The fact that the interior is unglazed may be an indication that it is from the earlier end of the dating range we suggest. Whenever it was made, it is a striking model dramatized by the restrained use of a limited palette of bold colours.
  
  A similar bottle was offered at auction in the U.S. in 1921 (Glickman 2006, p. 10, fig. 1.19); other related bottles are in Hall 1996, no. 3, JICSBS, Winter 1985, p. 25, and JICSBS, Autumn 1998, p. 1, although none is from the same mould.
  
  瓷胎畫粉彩童子形鼻煙壺
  
  瓷胎無色釉上粉彩；模製穿著兜肚捧著桃子的兒童，腳底施釉；內壁不施釉
  景德鎮， 1810–1860
  高﹕ 9.45 厘米
  口徑﹕ 0.5 厘米
  蓋﹕ 珊瑚
  
  狀態敘述： 陰莖端折掉了；此外，出窯狀態
  
  來源:
  Dwight C. Harris
  倫敦佳士得，1961年11月13日，拍賣品號 10
  Lydia Tovey
  倫敦蘇富比，1987年4月28日，拍賣品號 650
  
  文獻﹕
  《國際中國鼻煙壺協會的學術期刊》,1987年夏商，頁 28
  Kleiner, Yang, and Shangraw 1994, 編號 158
  Treasury 6, 編號 1339
  
  展覽﹕
  香港藝術館，1994年3月～6月
  National Museum of 新加坡，1994年11月～1995年2月
  
  本壺的色調多半是從傳統的五彩色調取出的。康熙朝中燒製了很多童子形瓷器，多數是向歐州出口的。如果本煙壺是有意地繼承那些先例，那麼，色調的選定是很適當的。
  
  內壁不施釉，可能是標志這件鼻煙壺是嘉慶朝作的。1921年有類似的一件煙壺在美國的拍賣會上卞售 (Glickman 2006, 頁 10, 圖 1.19)；其他相關的鼻煙壺有 Hall 1996, 編號 3, 《國際中國鼻煙壺協會的學術期刊》, 1985年冬期，頁25, 及《國際中國鼻煙壺協會的學術期刊》，1998年秋期，頁 1。其中沒有同模子出的。

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