Seeing Double

Jingdezhen, 1790-1840
Height: 7.5 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.62/1.50 cm
Stopper: iron-red, turquoise-blue and gold enamel on porcelain; imitating a coral cabochon set in gilt-bronze

Provenance:
Robert Hall, 2011
Robert Kleiner, December 2011.

Published:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part One, Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts.

 

Iron-red, turquoise-blue and black enamel on colourless glaze on white porcelain; with a convex lip and recessed, concave oval foot surrounded by a convex, oval foot rim; moulded in the form of two carp adjoined at their undersides, their mouths joined to form a single mouth to the bottle, the foot and interior glazed.

Alexander Whittaker