157 - A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘SHOU’ SNUFF BOTTLE JINGDEZHEN, 1810-1880

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘SHOU’ SNUFF BOTTLE JINGDEZHEN, 1810-1880 To Be Sold Without Reserve In the form of a wine-pot with a gently convex curving body surmounted by shoulders tapering towards a wide mouth in a concave curve, with two raised dog-like mask and ring handles and a recessed circular foot, painted around a central band with eight formalized shou characters, in seal script, the shoulder covered in a blue glaze and below in a caramel-coloured glaze, the foot painted with a further shou character in regular script also in underglaze-blue, with matching yin yang stopper Height: 5.5cm Provenance: Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, 26th September 1996, (a copy of the original invoice available) Illustrated: Front cover ICSBS JOURNAL, Winter 2006, Volume XXXVIII, number 3 Ω This Lot was imported from outside of the UK, under the Temporary Admission regime 5% import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer” and 20% VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium