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THREE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES
1837-1910
The first of rectangular form, the main faces painted with historical
worthies, inscriptions on the sides identifying the scenes and dated
dingyou (1837 or 1897), the foot with an apocryphal Chenghua mark;
the second of ovoid form, painted with a scene of Manchu officials
riding towards ‘Victory Gate’, the recessed foot with a six-character
Yongzheng mark; the third of flattened rounded rectangular form, one
side molded with a covered tripod on a stand above a Han dynasty
seal reading Xunyang ling yin, reversed by a painted scene of a
boatman approaching an island where two scholars sit by a grove of
trees.
2 7/8in (7.3cm) high, the tallest
$1,000 - 2,000

1837-1910年 青花鼻煙壺三件

Provenance
The Yongzheng marked bottle: Eldred’s Auctions, Massachusetts, 23
August 2003, lot 9

A bottle similar to the third one in the present lot, but with inscriptions
and a Guangxu mark, is illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and
Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and
George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, part 3, Hong Kong, 2008, no. 1421.
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A BLUE AND WHITE SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1850
Of cylindrical form, surmounted by a waisted neck, the unglazed
slightly concave foot carved with concentric circles, the sides painted
with two characters from the novel Water Margin with inscriptions
identifying them as Shi Yong and Qin Ming, all covered with a lightly
117 crackled glaze.
3 1/4in (8.2cm) high
$1,000 - 2,000
1780-1850年 青花水滸傳人物圖鼻煙壺

Provenance
Vanessa Holden, 1999
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