A RARE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN QUADRILOBED SNUFF BOTTLE

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

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN QUADRILOBED SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The bottle is decorated in imitation of cloisonné enamel with a large lotus flower surrounded by foliate scroll on either convex side, and small flower sprays on the narrow sides, all in gilt-outlined enamels of red, blue, white and yellow color on a turquoise ground.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance

Galerie di Donna, Paris, 1989.
Robert Hall, London, 2012.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5354.

Literature

Robert Hall, The White Orchid Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles XVII, London, 2012, no. 77.

Lot Essay

This bottle is one of a rare group of sets created at the imperial kilns in imitation of cloisonné. Most of these sets are in the imperial collection in Taipei. Versions exist in the present quadrilobed shape, double-gourd form, a bulbous pear shape, and a lobed meiping form, although the present shape appears to be one of the rarest. A double-gourd example with a Jiaqing mark is illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 558-559, no. 1251, where the group is discussed.

For a quadrilobed meiping-form bottle see Geng Baochang and Zhao Binhua (eds.), Zhongguo biyanhu zhenshang (Gems of Chinese Snuff Bottles), Hong Kong, 1992, no. 133. Sets from the National Palace Museum, Taipei are illustrated in Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991,p. 120, no. 84, (bulbous pear shape), p. 122, 124, nos. 86 and 88 (double-gourd-form).

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