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18TH CENTURY AND LATER
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FOUR VARIOUS ENAMELLED SNUFF BOTTLES
18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Comprising a porcelain snuff bottle of flattened baluster form, enamelled with a continuous scene of a ruby-red five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds; a glass bottle of flattened ovoid shape decorated in coloured enamels with blossoming branches and with a Qianlong four-character mark to the base; a bottle of flattened form decorated with ladies and attendants in a fenced garden, with a Qianlong seal mark to the base; and a further glass bottle of ovoid tapering form, enamelled with blossoming branches and peonies beside rockwork, with a Qianlong six-character seal mark to the base
The first, 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high, stoppers (4)
18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Comprising a porcelain snuff bottle of flattened baluster form, enamelled with a continuous scene of a ruby-red five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds; a glass bottle of flattened ovoid shape decorated in coloured enamels with blossoming branches and with a Qianlong four-character mark to the base; a bottle of flattened form decorated with ladies and attendants in a fenced garden, with a Qianlong seal mark to the base; and a further glass bottle of ovoid tapering form, enamelled with blossoming branches and peonies beside rockwork, with a Qianlong six-character seal mark to the base
The first, 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high, stoppers (4)
Provenance
The first bottle
Purchased from Yang Yung Fu.
Purchased from Yang Yung Fu.
Exhibited
The first bottle: An Imperial Qing Tradition, Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 8 December 1994 - 5 February 1995; and Phoenix Art Museum, 15 February - 15 April 1995, catalogue no. 28.
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