Chrysanthemums

Jingdezhen, probably 1912, possibly 1852.
Height: 5.68 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.85/1.7 cm
Stopper: iron-red, green, and gold pigment on porcelain

Provenance:
John Ault Collection
Robert Kleiner, September 2010

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

Famille rose enamels on white porcelain, with glaze; with a convex lip and flat foot; carved on one main side with flowering chrysanthemums growing from a grassy ground, coloured in yellow, pink, and green, and on the other with an inscription in black enamel running script, Renzi chun wei Yutian renxiong daren qingwan, di Jinliang jingzeng 壬子春為雨田仁兄大人清玩, 弟金亮敬贈 (‘Spring of the renzi year, for his eminence Yutian, Your junior brother Jinliang presents it with respect’'), the interior unglazed, the lip glazed