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18TH/19TH CENTURY
Details
SIX VARIOUS PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Comprising a bottle decorated in polychrome enamels with a Pekinese dog and with two doves beneath sprays of bamboo and flowering roses beside rockwork, the base inscribed in regular script Guangxu xin mao Suyun Daoren zhi Sanyou tu, corresponding to 1891, and of the period; and a further five snuff bottles variously decorated
The first, 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high, stopper (6)
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Comprising a bottle decorated in polychrome enamels with a Pekinese dog and with two doves beneath sprays of bamboo and flowering roses beside rockwork, the base inscribed in regular script Guangxu xin mao Suyun Daoren zhi Sanyou tu, corresponding to 1891, and of the period; and a further five snuff bottles variously decorated
The first, 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high, stopper (6)
Provenance
The first bottle: Hong Kong Auctioneers, July 26, 1991, lot 105
Exhibited
The first bottle: An Imperial Qing Tradition, Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 8 December 1994 - 5 February 1995; and Phoenix Art Museum, 15 February - 15 April 1995, catalogue no. 16.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Sale room notice
Please note that this lot now consists of six snuff bottles.
The bottle illustrated on the left hand side of the image, painted with the head of a European figure on a puce ground has been withdrawn.
The bottle illustrated on the left hand side of the image, painted with the head of a European figure on a puce ground has been withdrawn.
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