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

Details

AN ENAMELED MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The bottle is crisply molded with a continuous scene of figures in a boat collecting lotus blossoms on a stylized ground of swirling waves on one side, and on the reverse with a gentleman and lady in a pavilion gazing out at the lotus pond.
2 ¾ in. (6.9 cm.) high, plastic stopper

Provenance

Robert Hall, London, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3077.

Exhibited

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

Bottles made from this popular mold and similar Jiaqing-period molds can be found in monochrome enamels and a series of similarly enameled versions. For a similar Jiaqing-marked example and another Jiaqing-marked bottle covered overall in iron-red enamel, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 467-69, nos. 1209 and 1210.

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