A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED AND RETICULATED PORCELAIN 'LUOHANS' SNUFF BOTTLE

JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1820-1880

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A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED AND RETICULATED PORCELAIN 'LUOHANS' SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1820-1880
The sides are molded in high relief and reticulated with the Eighteen Luohans with their attributes and encase the inner walls of the bottle. An apocryphal Qianlong iron-red seal mark is on the base.
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high, porcelain stopper

Provenance

Robert Hall, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4990.

Literature

Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIV, no. 613.

Lot Essay

Similar bottles molded with luohan are illustrated by B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, p. 95, no. 278; by M. Hughes, The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, p. 195, no. 252; and by H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, pp.126-27, no. 297.

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