A FAMILLE ROSE 'RECLINING LADY' PORCELAIN BOTTLE

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'RECLINING LADY' PORCELAIN BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY

Lying with her right leg crossed over her left, holding a silk in her left hand and her face in the other, her robes turquoise ground, her trousers lime green, restored, stopper

Lot Essay

For an almost identical example see Sotheby's, New York, June 27, 1986, lot 276 and another with darker enamels sold Sotheby's London, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, March 23, 1988, lot 44. For a model with the left leg bent and held in the left hand, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, April 28, 1993, lot 488, illustrated on the front cover; for another with iron-red trousers, see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, fig. 135