A Jingdezhen moulded porcelain snuff bottle, painted in enamels and moulded in the form of Liu Hai, standing with one foot raised, clutching a string of cash and carrying a scaly three-legged toad on his shoulder.

The reverse of the Jingdezhen moulded porcelain snuff bottle, painted in enamels and moulded in the form of Liu Hai, standing with one foot raised, clutching a string of cash and carrying a scaly three-legged toad on his shoulder.

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Liu Hai Snuff Bottle

  

A Jingdezhen moulded porcelain snuff bottle with a metal stopper.

B77

Porcelain, painted in enamels and moulded in the form of Liu Hai, standing with one foot raised, clutching a string of cash and carrying a scaly three-legged toad on his shoulder.

Chinese, Jingdezhen
Jiaqing Period, 1796-1821
Stopper: Porcelain
Provenance: Erik Hancock
Redge Cooper, 1976
Height: 7.2cm

Liu Hai is the patron saint of commercial enterprise and along with his three-legged toad is always in search of cash. This is an extremely unusual mould: Liu Hai's raised foot means that the tiny area of one foot is the point of balance for the bottle: a real masterpiece of engineering. The painting is extremely well detailed showing a smiling Liu Hai, happy to have found some cash.

 

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