Footnotes

• During the Qing dynasty, Yixing was considered as one of the four major centres of ceramic production, together with Dehua in the Fujian province, Shiwan in the Guangdong province and Jingdezhen. Although Yixing is famed for its production of teapots, the connoisseurship of tea-drinking and teapots was usually among the retired officials and scholars. Other Yixing wares for scholarly and utilitarian uses, including the current lot, were commissioned during the nineteenth century.
  
  See three other Yixing snuff bottles examples of similar form, illustrated in Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.6, Arts of the Fire, Hong Kong, 2008, pp.961-966, nos. 1458,1459 and 1460. The authors argue that such groups of Yixing snuff bottles of identical shape to have been made during the Jiaqing or early Daoguang periods. See also an example with landscape panels set against a blue enamel ground from the Margaret Polak collection, sold in our New York rooms, 24 March 2010, lot 222.
  
  清 1790-1850 宜興窯紫泥掛釉泥繪鼻煙壺
  
  壺紫泥作胎，扁瓶形，長方身，直頸，橢圓形圈足。壺身兩面開光，分別以相同泥色的泥料繪製飾亭台山水及花草。壺頸部、壺身兩側及圈足內外均掛綠釉。
  
  宜興窯是除景德鎮窯、福建德化窯及廣東石灣窯外中國另一個重要的陶瓷生產基地。宜興雖以紫砂茶壺而聞名，然而自十九世紀起，不論是隱退紅塵的高士還是文人墨客都對茶道及茶具的鑒賞都有較高的修行。茶道、茶具及文人自然產生出一種間接地聯繫，而此時宜興窯除燒造紫砂茶壺外，也開始生產大量的文人用具及其他生活器具，其中就包括鼻煙壺。
  
  瑪麗及莊智博鼻煙壺收藏中亦有宜興窯燒造的鼻煙壺，其中三件與本壺形制十分類似，參見莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶著，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，第6冊，第三部份，頁961-966，編號1458，1459，1460。作者在書中指出，雖然能斷定這類鼻煙壺具體開始製作的日期，但如與道光年間宜興窯燒製以北京犬為主題紋飾泥繪的鼻煙壺對比，可發現其外觀形制基本一致，因此可推斷是嘉慶年間至道光早期所製產品。

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