IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING SEAK MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

Molded porcelain snuff bottles were an innovation of the late Qianlong period and further developed and flourished in the Jiaqing period, exemplified by the current example. A nearly identical bottle from The Reif Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles was sold at Christie's New York, 18 October 1993, lot 8.