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A white biscuit snuff bottle A porcelain snuff bottle with winged creatures
1820-1880 1820-1880
Of pear shape, with a flat everted glazed lip, and a high foot rim around Of flattened pear shape, with rounded lip and unglazed oval foot rim
a recessed base, the body of the bottle deeply carved with a dragon and around a glazed recessed base, the body of the bottle painted in bright
phoenix amid stylized clouds, the porcelain highlighted with touches of famille rose enamels with metamorphisized winged creatures on a
pale glaze. 2 3/4in (7cm) high incised wave ground.
$1,000 - 1,500 3in (7.6cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000
Provenance:
Fu-Ming-Fair, 1979 Provenance:
Burke’s, 1971
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A molded porcelain dragon and phoenix snuff bottle A tapering cylindrical porcelain bottle with a similar motif in famille rose
Qianlong mark, 19th century enamels is published in Rivers and Mountains Far From the World The
Of compressed ovoid form, with a rounded wide lip, waisted neck and Rachel R. Holden Collection, 1994, pp. 214-215, where it is noted that
recessed foot around a high oval foot rim, the body molded to display a this unusual scene represents the eight Daoist immortals who descended
dragon on one side reversed by a phoenix, each on a ground of stylized into the sea.
clouds, with famille rose overglaze enamels highlighted with gilding, the
foot bearing a four-character mark in iron red reading Qianlong Nianzhi. Another published example of a bottle featuring this motif is in the
3 1/4in (8.2cm) high collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. See Snuff Bottles in the
$1,500 - 2,500 Collection of the National Palace Museum p. 132 no. 96.

Provenance: A third example, of the same shape as the current lot, is published in Bob
T.Y. King, Hong Kong Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, no. 289.

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