A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND PORCELAIN BOTTLES

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEAL MARKS, 1790-1850

Details

A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND PORCELAIN BOTTLES
Qianlong four-character iron-red seal marks, 1790-1850
Of flattened baluster shape, each painted with stylized hibiscus at the center, with scrolling foliage surround below a cluster of a peach, pomegranate and finger citron, sanduo, and a descending bat at the shoulder, the narrow sides with small iron-red and gilt lion-mask fixed ring handles, all on a yellow ground, stoppers
2.13/16in. (7.1cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Elizabeth Chevalier Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 1982, lot 84

Literature

Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 240-241, no. 104

Lot Essay

A similar example, formerly in the Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection, is illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, London, 1991, p. 74, no. 73.

For a gourd-shaped example bearing a Jiaqing mark, see Hugh M. Moss, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, June, 1970, Catalogue, p. 73, no. 298.

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