Jagged-edged Longevity

1780-1870
Height: 6.22 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.53/1.30 cm
Stopper: aquamarine; gilt-silver collar.

Provenance:
Bandeu Collection, France
Robert Hall, February 2011

Published:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part Two, Non-Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts.

 

Famille rose enamels on brown stoneware; with a flat lip and recessed flat, oval foot surrounded by a protruding flat, oval foot rim, and with a recessed flat, oval panel on each main side; the panels each with a painted enamel design, one with a bird perched on a fruiting, blossoming peach bough with one pink and one blue peach, the other with a crane standing on one leg, looking over its shoulder at the sun in a garden setting with a pine tree and jagged rocks with various other flowering branches and pine branches and a low bamboo fence; the foot and interior glazed white

Alexander Whittaker