A RARE FAMILLE ROSE AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN BOTTLE

SNUFF BOTTLES THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE PORCELAIN BOTTLE
FOUR CHARACTER JIAQING MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD

Of octagonal, cylindrical shape, painted with two figures kneeling before a dignitary with two attendants in a garden terrace near a pavilion entrance, all between gilt key-pattern bands below gilt and underglaze-blue scrolling at the shoulder and neck, stopper

Lot Essay

For a similar type of bottle see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, col. pl. 124. For other Jiaqing-marked porcelain bottles see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue col. pls. 76-93; Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, col. pl. 222; and The Bellis Collection, Catalogue col. pl. 58