A FAMILLE ROSE GOLD-GROUND MOLDED PORCELAIN TWIN-NECKED BOTTLE

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A FAMILLE ROSE GOLD-GROUND MOLDED PORCELAIN TWIN-NECKED BOTTLE
JIAQING

Molded in high relief with a scene, possibly from an opera, depicting an elegant lady with twin-feather headdress surrounded by attendants in a courtyard on one side, and on the other, shown seated reading a book while surrounded by a large gathering of attendants and guards centered by two youths seen from behind, mouth chips, restored, stoppers

Lot Essay

For a very similar bottle see John G. Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, 1982, col. pl. 162. Also see Richard E. Fuller, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Seattle Art Museum, 1970, no. 63