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Lot Essay
Buddhist lion bottles of this group first appear during the late Qianlong period. They are found decorated in white, which is among the rarest, in a crackled, creamy enamel usually referred to, erroneously, as soft-paste, and in famille rose enamels. At the same time, a related group of a single recumbant lion with a brocade ball in its mouth was produced.
For an example decorated in famille rose enamels, see H. White, Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992, pl. 114, no. 3. For an identical example from the same mold, in equally fine condition, from the Collection of Count Blücher, see H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 125, no. 288.
For an example decorated in famille rose enamels, see H. White, Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1992, pl. 114, no. 3. For an identical example from the same mold, in equally fine condition, from the Collection of Count Blücher, see H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 125, no. 288.