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A FINE THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CAT AND BUTTERFLY & PEKINESE DOG AND DOVE' SNUFF BOTTLE Daoguang, 1821-1850 image 1
A FINE THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CAT AND BUTTERFLY & PEKINESE DOG AND DOVE' SNUFF BOTTLE Daoguang, 1821-1850 image 2
PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 257

A FINE THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CAT AND BUTTERFLY & PEKINESE DOG AND DOVE' SNUFF BOTTLE
Daoguang, 1821-1850

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A FINE THREE-COLOR JASPER 'CAT AND BUTTERFLY & PEKINESE DOG AND DOVE' SNUFF BOTTLE

Daoguang, 1821-1850
Of rounded square shape, well carved in very high relief from a primarily orange-brown layer and accentuated by the subtle darker green layer below with small rust-red inclusions at the shoulder, neck and foot, with a cat and butterfly alongside a plantain and lightly-carved rockwork to one side, the reverse with a single Pekinese dog and a dove on a plain ground, all below a cylindrical neck with flat rim and regular mouth, supported on a short foot and slightly rounded oval foot rim and shallow flat base.
2 3/8in (6 cm)

Footnotes

1821-1850 道光 精美三色碧石「耄耋圖」及鴿犬鼻煙壺一件

Provenance:
Patricia Miller Collection, Hawaii
Robert Kleiner, London, 2005

來源:
Patricia Miller收藏,夏威夷
Robert Kleiner,倫敦,2005年

For a jasper bottle with identical subjects to each side, see Christie's New York, 12 September 2018, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part VI, lot 740

For another jasper bottle with a similar scene of a cat and butterfly to one side (a cricket and gourd cricket cage to the other), dated 1780-1870, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York and Tokyo, 1993, p. 236, no. 145.The subject of a cat and butterfly was a popular one expressing a wish, in rebus form, for longevity. the reverse side, with a similarly dynamic scene, offers us a clue to the dating. The subject of Pekinese dogs in combination with doves was a favorite subject of the Daoguang Emperor and his consort and can be found on many Daoguang-marked Imperial ceramics and snuff bottles.

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