A MOLDED AND ENAMELLED PORCELAIN FIGURAL SNUFF BOTTLE

molded as a baby boy lying with legs crossed, wearing a gilt-decorated iron-red apron tied with turquoise ribbon, gold bracelets on his wrists and a drum-shaped rattle held in his right hand, a sandalwood and silver wire-inlaid zitan stand

Yang Family Collection.
Heritage Arts International Ltd., 3rd September 1994, lot 453.
Vanessa F. Holden.

JICSBS, Spring 2002, cover, and pp. 3 and 37.
Vanessa F. Holden, 'The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles', Oriental Art, 2002, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 65-72, fig. 35.

Good condition. The glaze is crazed overall and two of the craze lines on the underside of the boy have two small patches of slight greyish discoloration along them.
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According to Vanessa Holden, JICSBS, Spring 2002, p. 3 only one other example of this rare model exists, in the collection of Paul Braga. The enamel decoration can however be compared to that found on other figural bottles, including the Liu Hai bottle in the present sale, lot 24. Bottles molded in the form of standing baby boys, similarly dressed in string-tied aprons are also found, for an example of which see www.thecranecollection.com, no. 359.