Boating Party
Jingdezhen Imperial kilns, 1821-1830
Height: 5.7 cm
Mouth/lip: .75/1.6 cm
Stopper: Famille rose enamels on colourless glaze on porcelain, John Charlton, London, circa 1972
Provenance:
Robert Hall, London, 2010.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5072.
Christie’s, New York, 16 September 2015, lot 318
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.
Published:
Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 127, no. 299.
Famille rose enamels on colourless glaze on white porcelain; with a slightly convex lip, slightly convex foot and convex footrim; moulded with a continuous scene of two boats on formalized waves passing a rocky shoreline with willow trees and flowers, one boat with a woman standing in the prow as the boatman paddles from the stern, the other a covered boat with a figure seated in the central enclosed section, a man at standing at the bow, and apparently a woman paddling from the stern, with formalized clouds above, all beneath a band of continuous leiwen, (‘thunder pattern’), the foot with the remnants of a six character reign mark in iron-red seal script 大清道光年製 Da Qing Daoguang nian zhi (‘Made in the Daoguang era of the Qing dynasty’).
