CHINE, XIXEME SIECLE

Details

TABATIERE EN PORCELAINE EMAILLEE BLANC
CHINE, XIXEME SIECLE
En forme de lion bouddhique, ce dernier représenté couché, le pelage finement rendu, la crinière bouclée, les yeux émaillés noirs, la gueule ouverte, les crocs plantés dans une balle rehaussée d'un ruban, les pattes avant maintenant le jouet en place, le bouchon en pâte de verre
Longueur avec le bouchon: 8,3 cm. (3¼ in.)

Provenance

Hugh Moss Ltd., London, 24 May 1979.

Special notice

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Further details

A MOLDED WHITE-ENAMELLED PORCELAIN BUDDHIST LION SNUFF BOTTLE
CHINA, 19TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

Compare the current bottle with an identical one illustrated in Michael C. Hughes, The Blair Bequest. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, p.210, pl.285.
See also another type of molded white porcelain buddhist lion bottle from the Blanche B. Extein Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 2002, lot 73.

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