Lot 263
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A FAMILLE ROSE EROTIC-SUBJECT PORCELAIN BOTTLE

QIANLONG IRON-RED MARK, 1800-1880

Details
A FAMILLE ROSE EROTIC-SUBJECT PORCELAIN BOTTLE
Qianlong Iron-Red Mark, 1800-1880
Of oviform shape, molded in high relief and delicately painted with six groups of coupled figures variously posed in an interior setting on a pale turquoise ground between a delicate wavy band at the foot and a pink-enameled, molded key-fret band at the neck, stopper
2¼in. (5.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

For an identically molded bottle in different colors see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, October 28, 1992, lot 449

For another erotic bottle see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, Catalogue, p. 223, no. 164