A YELLOW-GLAZED COBALT-DECORATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLEDaoguang four-character cobalt mark and a poem cyclically dated wuxu year, corresponding to 1838 Ofpressed tapering rectangular shape, painted in cobalt that appears black with a man fishing while balanced on the trunk of a willow tree on one face and with a poetic inscription describing the scene, with the date and followed by 'inscribed at the office of the Superintendent of Customs at Xunyang by Liu Muzhi' on the reverse side; stopper. 2 1/8in (5.5cm) high 道光 詩文署戊戌年（1838） 1838-1850 黃地瓷胎氧化藍彩漁人垂釣鼻烟壺 《道光年製》款 Provenance: Robert Hall, London, 1994 Ruth and Carl Barron Christie's, New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part I, 16 September 2015, lot 215 Literature: Hugh Moss, The Barron Collection , illustrated handlist, ICSBS Convention 2008, p. 42, no. 1623 Exhibited: ICSBS Convention, Boston, 23-26 September 2008 This bottle bears an identical inscription and near identical painting to another illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 2, Arts of the Fire , Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 656-657, no. 1301. See also a bottle very closely related to this group depicting the same scene of a fisherman and willow on one side and two magpies amidst rockwork and a prunus tree on the other, formerly in the Edward T. Chow Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 1982, lot 104. It was catalogued as bearing a four-character studio name, not identified, but translated as 'made in the cacia tree pavilion'. Another bottle listed by Moss et al., op. cit., p.657 as from the Piper collection (unpublished) listed as depicting magpies and willow, is signed by an individual - Gui Tingshou zhi (made by Gui Tingshou).