In the Green of the Day

Jingdezhen, 1820-1870
Stopper: carnelian; metal collar
Height: 8.15 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.82/1.58 cm

Provenance:
Dennis G. Crow, Los Angeles, California, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1606
Christie’s, New York, 12 September 2018, lot 616

 
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.

Transparent emerald-green glaze on black pigment on porcelain; with a convex lip, flat foot, and convex foot rim; painted beneath the glaze with a wrap-around, mountainous landscape scene with a scholar reading in his waterside pavilion, plus the traditionally idealised philosopher-recluses, a fisherman and a woodcutter, beneath a neck-band of formalized lingzhi; the interior with a thin, colourless glaze.