A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE AND A SNUFF DISH

BOTTLE, IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE AND A SNUFF DISH
BOTTLE, IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Of high-shouldered tapering form, the bottle is crisply molded and pierced with nine Buddhistic lions chasing brocade balls set between narrow ruyi bands encircling the foot and shoulder. The neck is further molded with a key-fret band. The circular snuff dish is painted with flowering branches emerging from rockwork.
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high, porcelain stopper (2)

Provenance

Martin Schoen Collection; acquired from Belle Schoen, New York, 1988.

Exhibited

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 13.

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Lot Essay

Bottles made from this popular and similar Jiaqing-period molds can be found in monochrome enamels and a series of famille rose versions. For a similar Jiaqing-marked example and another Jiaqing-marked bottle covered overall in iron-red enamel, see Moss, Graham, 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. 467-9, nos. 1209 and 1210, where other examples are cited. A further example was sold at Bonhams New York, 20 March 2012, lot 3.

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