AN INSCRIBED RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, ATTRIBUTED TO LI JUNTING, YANGZHOU SCHOOL, CHINA, DATED 1822

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AN INSCRIBED RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, ATTRIBUTED TO LI JUNTING, YANGZHOU SCHOOL, CHINA, DATED 1822 Expert’s note: Although unsigned, this bottle can be confidently attributed to the master glass carver Li Junting, one of the most important and innovative of all Qing glass artists, also one of the very few we can identify by name. Li's bottles are among the finest of the low-relief works of the school he headed, believed to have been at Yangzhou, and this superb example is no exception. Dated Yangzhou bottles are rather rare, but have been recorded with dates between 1819 and 1822. Inscriptions: To one side on the shoulder, dated to the Year of Renwu (corresponding to 1822), and to the other side with the seal ‘Zhengye’ (good luck). Of flattened spherical form, finely carved through the ruby-red outer layer to the milky-white ground to one side with two boys stirring a pot, above scattered sprigs, a tea kettle, and a cup, below an inscription on the shoulder giving the cyclical date, the reverse with a boy holding up a branch and kneeling beside a recumbent water-buffalo pulling a tethered melon, with butterflies hovering above and a seal Zhengye, the shoulders carved with fruiting double-gourd sprays. Stopper: Jasper Dimensions: Height incl. stopper 62 mm, Diameter neck 13 mm and mouth 7 mm Literature comparison: Compare a closely related snuff bottle attributed to Li Junting, illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Glass, no. 1035. Compare two snuff bottles attributed to Li Junting from the J & J Collection, nos. 402 and 403, illustrated by Moss, Graham, and Tsang in The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, Vol. 2. Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie’s New York, 21 March 2002, lot 35 Price: USD 17,625 or approx. EUR 27,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Expert remark: Compare the closely related form as well as the near-identical colors, with ruby-red overlay on milky-white ground and similar manner of carving. Note the identical size (56 mm, measured without stopper). Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 12 Price: USD 11,875 or approx. EUR 15,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Expert remark: Compare the related form, similar boy motif, and manner of carving. Note the size (59 mm) and the slightly different colors, not allowing as much sunlight passing through the bottle as the present lot. Update: A noted expert and colleague has informed us that Li Junting in fact is a patron, one of two brothers, and not a carver as once thought. The dating of this bottle may also be 1882.

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