Provincial Puzzle

1780-1900
Height: 8.5cm
Mouth/lip: 0.76/1.2 cm
Stopper: coral; gilt-bronze collar

Provenance
Collection of Arthur Gadsby.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd May 1991, lot 164.
George and Mary Bloch Collection
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

Published
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 1416.

 

Variegated brown and yellow-ochre glaze on beige porcelain; with a convex lip and slightly recessed flat circular foot surrounded by a convex circular footrim; the glaze continuing into the mouth of the bottle; the foot left as biscuit and carved with concentric circles; the lip, inner neck, and interior glazed, the latter with a shiny brown glaze.

Alexander Whittaker