A Molded Enamelled Porcelain Bottle

1870-1920

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A Molded Enamelled Porcelain Bottle
1870-1920
Shaped as a folded lotus leaf with long stems and buds carved in varying relief emerging from the mouth and curving around the base, the veins of the leaf outlined in low relief, enamelled in shades of green, with pink for the buds, stopper
2.11/16in. (6.9cm.) high

Lot Essay

For an identical bottle see Au Hang, The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 218-219, no. 290.

A similar bottle is illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Snuff Bottles in the National Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, Catalogue, no. 40; and Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, p. 132, no. 97.

For another, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 28 April 1997, lot 53

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