Snuff bottle with peony, magnolia, and crabapple

1735-1796

Ancient Moon Pavilion (Guyuexuan) is the prestigious name often used to refer to milky-white glass-body wares with painted enamel decoration. Reproducing painting techniques in this medium is a significant technical challenge because glass and enamel have similar melting points and each enamel color requires a particular firing temperature and duration.

Glass with overglaze enamel and gilt

1 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. (4.76 x 3.81 cm)

Girth: 4 1/8 in.

Diam.: 1/2 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

33.119

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Chinese Ceramics and Snuff Bottles from the Ming and Xing Dynasties, January 14, 2006 - April 2, 2006.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Published Referencesde Vere Bailey, B. A., The Old Moon Pavilion Ware, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol 67, No. 393, (December 1935), pp. 264-267+270-273, p. 267 pl. 1, E

The Connoisseur, (May 1936), ill. p. 283

Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 81 (b&w)

Perry, L. Chinese Snuff Bottles, (1960), p. 91, no. 71, p. 99

Clydesdale, Heather Colburn, The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Journal, Autumn 2008, pg. 5

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