Atomo Collection

• Amber
  
  
• Ovoid shape
  
  
• Well-hollowed ovoid bottle with a slightly concave foot. The flawless material carved with a continuous landscape with rocky outcrops, blossoming prunus and pine trees. One side with a scholar seated in a boat playing the qin, his attendant leaning against a nearby rock listening attentively. The other side with a fisherman sitting in his boat, a large fish dangling from his rod, and a boy standing nearby holding a basket and what appears to be a clam in his outstretched hand. Coral stopper carved as a lotus leaf with jadeite finial, stained walrus-tusk collar and additional vinyl collar.

Period

• 1740 - 1870

Size

• Height cm. 5.8
• Mouth cm. 0.6
• Lip cm. 2.0

Stopper

• Coral - jadeite - stained walrus - tusk collar and additional black vinyl collar

Provenance

• Ambassador T.T. Li (Shanghai, 1945)
• J & J collection
• Christie's New York - 22 March 2007 - Lot no. 63

Exhibited

• Hayana, Cuba, 1945
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, 1968
• Christie's New York, 1993
• Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
• Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
• Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
• Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2001 - 2002
• Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
• National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
• International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
• Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003
• 41st Convention I.C.S.B.S., Dublin, October 2009
• Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011

Published

• Moss, Graham, Tsang - "The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection" - Vol II - no. 295
• Journal ICSBS - Autumn 1993 - Vol XXV number 3 - Cover
• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 26, p. 31
• The stopper: Journal ICSBS - Spring 1993 - Vol XXV number 1 - Cover