PRINTIn retrospect, many porcelain bottles of Imperial origin were manufactured in the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen and subsequently delivered to the Imperial court. Some speculate that porcelain bottles were the very first stuff bottles as historically cylindrical-shaped porcelain bottled were utilized for storage of medicine during the Ming Dynasty. Some of these bottles were later re-purposed for storing snuff. In Yong Lu’s Leisurely inquiry , it posits, “For highly priced porcelain snuff bottles, some were believed to be dated to Ming dynasty and used for medicine before.” Compare with a similarly decorated porcelain snuff bottle, illustrated in Chinese snuff bottle , Hugh M. Moss, London, 1970, pl.321, p.78.
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9011
A GREEN ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE
YONGZHENG AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) |
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Of cylindrical form rising to a slightly convex lip from a flat circular foot, enameled in green with a continuous design of an Imperial five-clawed dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl, the unglazed foot with a double concentric band. |
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Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 195,000 - 313,000 6,400 - 10,300
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In retrospect, many porcelain bottles of Imperial origin were manufactured in the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen and subsequently delivered to the Imperial court. Some speculate that porcelain bottles were the very first stuff bottles as historically cylindrical-shaped porcelain bottled were utilized for storage of medicine during the Ming Dynasty. Some of these bottles were later re-purposed for storing snuff. In Yong Lu’s Leisurely inquiry , it posits, “For highly priced porcelain snuff bottles, some were believed to be dated to Ming dynasty and used for medicine before.” Compare with a similarly decorated porcelain snuff bottle, illustrated in Chinese snuff bottle , Hugh M. Moss, London, 1970, pl.321, p.78.