A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED SMALL BOTTLE

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK, 1880-1920

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A SMALL FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED SMALL BOTTLE
Qianlong four-character seal mark, 1880-1920
Of flattened heart shape, each side with a raised molded shaped panel painted with a river landscape scene on a dotted turquoise ground, possible imitating sharkskin, the narrow sides with blue enameled lion-mask fixed-ring handles, stopper
1¾in. (4.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a very similar bottle with scholars in a landscape, see Christie's, London, The Edmund F. Dwyer Collection, 12 October 1987, lot 98.

For a taller more slender bottle from the same group bearing an iron-red juren tang mark, see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 113, no. 201.

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