Atomo Collection

• Porcelain
  
  
• Flattened circular
  
  
• Fine and very rare famille rose enamelled porcelain snuff bottle imperial, Jingde Zhen Kilns, Daoguang Iron-red four character seal mark and of the period (1821 - 1850).
  Painted with a continuous landscape scene with a piebald horse standing beneath a blossoming tree and on the reverse, a mare suckling her foal under a pine tree.

Period

• 1821 - 1850

Size

• Height cm. 5.0
• Mouth cm. 0.9
• Lip cm. 1.8

Stopper

• Red Coral with gilt collar

Provenance

• Ko Collection, Shanghai, 1932
• Christie's London, 8 November 1976, Lot no. 21
• J & J Collection
• Christie's Hong Kong - 25 April 2004 - Lot no. 821

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. 221
• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 28, p. 33