Sixteen Boys

Jingdezhen, 1790-1850
Height: 6.36 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.73/1.18 cm
Stopper: glass carved with a coiled chi dragon

Provenance:
Liu Jianpeng, Beijing, December 2007

Published:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, Part 2, Web publication, e-yaji.com.

Colourless glaze on cobalt pigment on beige-white porcelain; with a wide mouth, convex lip, and recessed flat, circular foot surrounded by a convex, circular foot rim; painted in underglaze blue with a continuous design of sixteen boys, some holding lotus and gui flowers, one dressed as a scholar and holding a halberd, one with a hanging musical chime, one playing with a ball, and another with a small hanging lantern, with three bats flying above them; the neck with a band of formalized lingzhi, the foot and interior glazed.