A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

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

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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The bottle is molded and enameled with a continuous scene depicting on one side the poet Su Dongbo aboard a pleasure boat with guests, set on a turbulent river below overhanging cliffs. The reverse is decorated with a scholar, likely Mifu, standing in a formal garden and inscribing a rock, with pine trees and and flowers framing the scene.
2 15⁄16 in. (7.5 cm.) high, porcelain stopper
Provenance
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
JICSBS, Autumn 1993, JWA ad, no. 6.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 338-339, no. 151.
Exhibited
New York, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 25th Anniversary Convention of the ICSBS, 13-17 October 1993.

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