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An enameled porcelain snuff bottle A porcelain snuff bottle with famille rose enamels
Jiaqing mark and of the period Jiaqing mark and of the period
The ovoid body carved with scenes of an scholar and attendant gazing Of tapering baluster shape, with a gilt lip and flat foot, the front and back
toward the heavens reversed by others on a pleasure boat, the surface panels finely painted with female immortals on a terrace overlooking a
finely molded and enameled. mountainous landscape amid a sea of clouds, the edges decorated with
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high formalized scrolls on a pink ground, with ruyi heads on the waisted neck,
$2,000 - 3,000 traces of gilt bordering the main panels, with a four character Jiaqing
mark in seal script in iron red on the foot.
Provenance: 2 5/8in (6.7cm) high
T.Z. Shiota, San Francisco, March, 1970 $5,000 - 7,000

A similarly molded bottle is illustrated in the William Bragge collection. Provenance:
T.Y. King, Hong Kong
For a related example, see Patrick K. M. Kwok, ‘The Joe Grimberg
Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles’, Arts of Asia, November-December A nearly identical bottle is illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Edward
1993, pp. 92-97, no. 35. Choate O’Dell Collection, p. 64, no. 156.

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