Atomo Collection

• Porcelain
  
  
• Cylindrical bottle
  
  
• Blue and White Porcelain snuff bottle painted with a continuous design of seventeen monkeys in a rocky landscape playing on and around a peach tree, the foot with an eighteenth monkey seated alone.

Period

• 1800 - 1860

Size

• Height cm. 8.3
• Mouth cm. 0.9
• Lip cm. 1.9

Stopper

• Lapis Lazuli.

Provenance

• Hugh M. Moss Ltd, 1970
• J & J Collection
• Christie's Hong Kong - 25 April 2004 - Lot no. 876

Exhibited

• 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. I - no. 228
• "The Art of Chinese Snuff Bottle" - Poly Art Museum, 9/2003 - P. 9
• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 29, p. 34

Comparison

• Dennis G. Crow, "Blue and White Snuff Bottles", Arts of Asia, September-October 1990, p. 104, fig. 13