Atomo Collection

• Porcelain
  
  
• Lobed
  
  
• Unusual blue and white lobed snuff bottle of formalized melon form with wide mouth, convex lip and recessed flat foot surrounded by a footrim, the six melon-like lobes finely painted in underglaze blue with leafy fruiting melon vines and covered by a transparent glaze with slight crackle.

Period

• 1790 - 1840

Size

• Height cm. 6.4
• Mouth cm. 0.8
• Lip cm. 1.4

Stopper

• Coral with gilt collar

Provenance

• John Ford, Baltimora
• Meriem Collection
• Auction Meriem Collection - Christie's, New York - 19 March 2008 - Lot n. 269

Exhibited

• 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

• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 31, p. 36

Comparison

• "The Guo'An Collection" - Sotheby's Hong Kong - 30 October 2000 - lot no. 563