AN IMPERIAL ENAMELLED MOLDED PORCELAIN BOTTLE

DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1821-1850

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AN IMPERIAL ENAMELLED MOLDED PORCELAIN BOTTLE
Daoguang four-character iron-red seal mark and of the period, 1821-1850
Of spade shape, molded in high relief in a continuous scene with a five-clawed scaly dragon painted in emerald-green enamel with white enamel claws, chasing an iron-red flaming pearl, stopper
2¼in. (5.7cm.) high

Provenance

Hugh M. Moss, London, 1971
Henry Hilston, Los Angeles, 1983

Literature

Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, Hong Kong, 1971, no. 296 and back jacket

Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 32-33, no. 5

Lot Essay

For a similarly molded and painted example see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles:5, Middlesex, 1969, p.71, fig. 79; see also two others, ibid, p.72, figs. 80-81.

Another similar bottle formerly in the Ko Family Collection is illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, London, 1991, p. 69, no. 68.

For another example with the dragon's mane enamelled in aubergine see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 330-331, no. 213.

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