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An enamelled porcelain ‘cicada’ snuff bottle
192 18th/19th century
191 Y The lively insect well-modelled and decorated meticulously with details
Two porcelain ‘Buddhist lion’ snuff bottles including protruding eyes, feathery wings and striped thorax in black, brown
18th/19th century and turquoise-blue enamels, stopper. 6.7cm (2 1/2in) high (2).
Each crisply modelled in the form of a recumbent lion, enamelled in green, £4,000 - 6,000
yellow and aubergine with protruding eyes, long mane and tail, its mouth HK$47,000 - 71,000 CNY38,000 - 56,000
grasping a brocade ball decorated in diaper patterns, tiger’s eye and
aventurine stoppers. Each 7.3cm (2 7/8in) high (4). 十八/十九世紀 瓷胎模製蟬形鼻煙壺
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$35,000 - 59,000 CNY28,000 - 47,000 Provenance: A European private collection and thence by descent
十八/十九世紀 瓷胎模製素三彩獅子繡球形鼻煙壺兩件
Provenance: A European private collection and thence by descent 來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去
來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去
The auspicious design of cicada in the form of a snuff bottle was popular and
produced in other mediums such as jade, crystal and inkstone. Porcelain snuff
bottles in the form of a cicada appear to have been first produced in the early
19th century. The cicada symbolises immortality due to its longer life cycle
compared to other insects.

Compare a similar ‘cicada’ snuff bottle illustrated by H.Moss, V.Graham,
K.B.Tsang, in A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch
Collection, Vol.6, Arts of the Fire, Hong Kong, 2008, p.535, no.1240 and sold
in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 May 2012, lot 139.

193 Y ≈

Two porcelain snuff bottles
The elephant late 18th century; the squirrel Jiaqing/ Daoguang
One bottle well-modelled in a form of a recumbent caparisoned white
elephant with an iron-red and gilt-decorated zun set atop its back on a saddle
with gilt scrolls on the edge, porcelain stopper; the other molded as a squirrel
perching on a grapevine enamelled in pink, purple, iron-red and green, the
body hair and tail decorated extensively in grey enamels, jadeite stopper. The
elephant 5cm (2in) wide; the squirrel 7.5cm (3in) high (4).
£4,000 - 6,000
HK$47,000 - 71,000 CNY38,000 - 56,000

十八世紀晚期 瓷胎模製象形鼻煙壺
清嘉慶/道光 瓷胎模製松鼠葡萄形鼻煙壺

Provenance: A European private collection and thence by descent

來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去

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