A FINE AND VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

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A FINE AND VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

Painted with a continuous landscape scene with a piebald horse standing beneath a blossoming tree and on the reverse, a mare suckling her foal under a pine tree, stopper
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Ko Collection, Shanghai, 1932
Christie's London, 8 November 1976, lot 21

Literature

Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, vol. 1, no. 221

Exhibited

Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2001 - 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003

Lot Essay

This very rare subject is otherwise unrecorded. By the Daoguang period, the tradition of giving snuff bottles as gifts had probably become firmly established for Emperor and recipients alike. The present Imperial snuff bottle was probably made in a small series as part of a much larger order, of which only this one has so far come to light.

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