A CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘EGRET AND LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘EGRET AND LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE

QING DYNASTY, 1780-1900

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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘EGRET AND LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 1780-1900
The bottle is decorated in famille rose enamels within cloisons depicting three egrets in a lotus pond against a black ground. Together with a cloisonné enamel snuff dish with a black crab within a circular panel (1800-1900).

Bottle: 2 9/16 in. high, metal stopper;
Dish: 1 3/8 in. (3.6 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Bottle: The Hon. Judge Edgar Bromberger Collection
Dish: The Frances and Neal Hunter Collection
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 15 September 1998, lot 383
Robert Hall, London, October 1998

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