Important Chinese Art

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A famille-rose 'magpie and prunus' snuff bottle, Mark and period of Jiaqing | 清嘉慶 粉彩喜上梅稍圖鼻煙壺 《嘉慶年製》款

Auction Closed

September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A famille-rose 'magpie and prunus' snuff bottle

Mark and period of Jiaqing

清嘉慶 粉彩喜上梅稍圖鼻煙壺 《嘉慶年製》款


of ovoid form set over a low foot and rising to a straight neck, painted all around with a prunus tree in bloom, a flock of magpies perching and flying amidst the branches, the tree bark and birds executed in grisaille enamels with the new shoots in lime-green and the blooms picked out in pink and yellow, the base with a four-character mark in iron red, tourmaline stopper (2)


Height 2⅜ in., 6 cm

Collection of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) and Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971), and thence by descent.


來源

Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) 及 Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971) 伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承

Magpies symbolize jubilation and were a popular subject in the decorative arts of the Qing dynasty. Compare a contemporaneous similarly painted famille-rose 'prunus and magpie' snuff bottle of domed form from the Ruth and Carl Barron Collection (coll. no. 5330) sold at Christie's New York, 15th September 2015, lot 343. See also a baluster-form example with a Qianlong mark, but possibly produced in the Jiaqing period, formerly in the collection of Colonel James A. Blair, Jr. (1880-1934), and now in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, published in Michael C. Hughes, The Blair Bequest: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, pl. 207.