Magpie Prunus

Yixing, 1780-1870
Height: 6.72 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.5/1.4 cm
Stopper: coral; gilt metal collar

Provenance:
John F. Ruckman, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Charles V. Swain (no. 283)
Clark Fennimore
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 4 December 2015, lot 644
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

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 protruding, concave oval foot; the main sides with sunken panels painted on an off-white, crackled enamel, one with a magpie and blossoming prunus, the other with a flowerbed with chrysanthemums and other flowers, the surrounds covered in blue enamel, the foot enamelled off-white.