A FAMILLE ROSE AND BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE
A FAMILLE ROSE AND BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE

JIAQING, 1796-1820

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A FAMILLE ROSE AND BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE
Jiaqing, 1796-1820
Of spade shape, painted in the famille rose palette with a deer below pine and peony to one side, and two birds amidst peony, narcissus and rockwork to the other, all on a turquoise ground, the narrow sides painted in underglaze blue with ribboned Daoist objects, a cell-band at the neck, stopper
2.1/8in. (5.3cm.)
Provenance
Gerd Lester Collection, New York, 1981

Lot Essay

For a Jiaqing-marked bottle of somewhat similar shape also depicting flowers and rockwork to one side, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 202, no. 144.

For another example painted with landscape panels, see Christie's, London, The Edmund F. Dwyer Collection, 12 October 1987, lot 121 and also illistrated by Hugh M. Moss, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1970, Catalogue, no. 280.

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