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Lot Essay
Luohan are Buddhists who have attained perfect enlightenment and act as a worldly conduits to the state of indefinitely expanded consciousness granted by the experience. They are the legendary sixteen disciples of Buddha, but in their introduction to China and Japan, two more were added (and even far larger groupings are known).
The same subject is also found in other color combinations, and particularly in early cream-colored molded porcelain bottles of the very finest quality, which can be dated to the late Qianlong or early Jiaqing period. Although the mark is illegible here, it is probably a corrupted Jiaqing reign mark. During the late-Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns, several series of molded porcelain bottles made for the Court had severely abbreviated reign marks, some of which became illegible, although many can be identified as Jiaqing marks through intermediate stages of corruption.
See similar examples molded with luohan illustrated by B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, no. 278, M. Hughes, The Blair Bequest. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, no. 252, and H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, no. 297. A cream-glazed example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by H. White, Snuff Bottles from China, pl. 115, no. 3.
The same subject is also found in other color combinations, and particularly in early cream-colored molded porcelain bottles of the very finest quality, which can be dated to the late Qianlong or early Jiaqing period. Although the mark is illegible here, it is probably a corrupted Jiaqing reign mark. During the late-Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns, several series of molded porcelain bottles made for the Court had severely abbreviated reign marks, some of which became illegible, although many can be identified as Jiaqing marks through intermediate stages of corruption.
See similar examples molded with luohan illustrated by B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, no. 278, M. Hughes, The Blair Bequest. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, no. 252, and H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, no. 297. A cream-glazed example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by H. White, Snuff Bottles from China, pl. 115, no. 3.