Spring Snuff Pot

Jingdezhen, 1820-1900
Height: 7.7 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.90 (although gently flared)/2.98 cm
Stopper: bronze chased with a reticulated design of birds, butterflies and flowers

Provenance:
James D. Julia, Maine, August 2015

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.

Green, brown, yellow, and white glazes on off-white porcelain; a snuff pot with a wide mouth, gently flared inner lip, recessed, slightly concave foot and protruding, convex foot rim; carved/applied around half the body with an uprooted flowering narcissus plant and two butterflies in green, brown, and white on a yellow ground, the foot also yellow, with splashes of yellow on the interior.