Blue Landscape Snuff Dish

QING PERIOD 1644 to 1911

A MAGNIFICENT RARE BLUE LANDSCAPE SNUFF DISH 珐琅彩 FALANGCAI ENAMEL

A superb snuff dish stand on a circular foot.
Finely painted using a variety of shadings in blue enamel, a landscape scene painted in the style of "Tang Yin".

An idyllic landscape scene.
Mountains and bare leafed trees in the distance, an indication of winter.
Village houses visible between sloping foreshores.
A single scholar poling his craft across calm waters to his lakeside retreat.
Descending pastures and trees.

The underside with a border of scrolling white acanthus, pale lime green leaves, dark pink peonies, against a navy blue ground.

A blue Qianlong Period Seal Mark on a white background

This superb snuff dish is comparable in quality to works produced in the Imperial Workshops of the Imperial Palace, 造 辦 處 Zaobanchu .

Condition: Excellent.

Refer Large Images for details, quality and condition, they also form the description.
Depending on your cdark omputer monitor / phone / etc colour may vary to actual.

Dimensions are maximum measurements

Width about: 4.6 cm

A$ 3,000


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Sotheby's Hong Kong 4 June 2021 Lot 1033
The blue snuff dish virtually identical front and back.
Pair Sold 151,200 HKD

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Sold 47,500 HKD

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Christie's London 14 May 2019 Lot 104
A single blue and white snuff dish similar, a different landscape scene.
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A similar blue enamel dish with a different landscape scene, Beijing Palace Museum Collection. Accession number xin00120825

A nearly identical blue snuff dish is recorded in The Collectors Book of Snuff Bottles 1976 Bob C. Stevens. Image # 998

Tang Yin (唐寅,1470–1524), better known by his courtesy name Tang Bohu (唐伯虎), was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming Dynasty whose life story has become a part of popular lore.
Tang Yin is one of the most famous painters in the history of Chinese art.
He was a pupil of the great Shen Zhou (沈周,1427–1509) and a friend of Wen Zhengming (文徵明, 1470–1559).

Since his thirties, Tang also studied painting under Zhou Chen (周臣, 1460–1535) and copied the works of such artists as Li Tang (李唐, c.1066–1150), Ma Yuan (馬遠, c.1160–1225), and Xia Gui (夏珪, fl. 1180–1230) from the Southern Song.

In addition, Tang Yin also assimilated the techniques of scholar landscape painting from the Four Great Masters of the Yuan, thus creating a distinct personal style.

Tang Yin is regarded as one of the painting elite—“the Four Masters of Ming” (明四家), which also includes Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Qiu Ying (仇英, ca.1495–1552).
Tang was also a talented poet and scholar.

Together with his contemporaries Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming (祝允明, 1460–1526), and Xu Zhenqing (徐禎卿, 1479–1511), they are known as the “Four Literary Masters of the Wuzhong Region (in today’s Suzhou)” (吳中四大才子) or “Four Literary Masters of Jiangnan (south of the Yangtze River)” (江南四大才子).