Lot 106
CHINESE COPPER RED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE SNUFF BOTTLE WITH THEATRICAL SCENE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 08 November 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£1,008
Description
清 青花釉裏紅戲劇人物故事圖鼻煙壺
of cylindrical form, finely painted in a continuous scene with some theatrical characters in different headdresses and their horses gathering in front of large doors and fences of a mansion, the base decorated with three branches of stylised pattern
Dimensions
8.6cm high without stopper; 9.4cm high with stopper
Footnote
The painting of this otherwise unrecorded subject is exquisitely well achieved. A closely comparable cylindrical snuff bottle, with very similar theatrical scene, design on the neck and the same pattern on the base, possibly from the same workshop, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 1993.386.30.