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PROPERTY FROM THE ELSA GLICKMAN COLLECTION

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AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE A RETICULATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
Jingdezhen kilns, Daoguang period, 1821-1850 Wang Bingrong 1820-1870
Of compressed form with a flat lip and unglazed oval foot rim, the Of compressed upright rectangular form, with a flat lip and high oval
body with famille rose enamels showing a continuous landscape with foot rim, the body reticulated, each face with five bats’ surrounding
one side with a figure at a desk, the moon in gold above, reversed by a shou medallion, the bats eyes highlighted in black, with a four-
an eight character inscription, with a four character mark on the foot in character Wang Bingrong zuo mark in seal script inscribed to the
iron red reading Guayue Shanzhuang. recessed foot, the porcelain body with a mustard yellow glaze.
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high 2 3/8in (6.1cm) high

US$6,000 - 8,000 US$7,000 - 9,000

Provenance Provenance
Hugh Moss Ltd., 1 July 1993 Sotheby’s London, 6 May 1986, lot 337
Collection of J.T. Wakefield, Esq.
The poem reads: the stars and the moon, the flood dragon content,
the milky way is present in the heavens” For another bottle with the mustard yellow glaze with a Wang
Bingrong zuo mark in the collection of Richard See Whee Baey, see
Two identical bottles with the same composition are in the Qing Snuff Bottles: Little Gems of Delight, Singapore, 2004. M91, p. 38
Imperial collection see The complete collection of treasures in the
Palace Museum, vol 47 Snuff Bottles nos 336 & 339 1820-1870 王炳榮 鏤雕瓷胎施黃釉’五蝠捧壽’鼻煙壺
《王炳榮作》四字篆書款
1821-1850 清道光 粉彩瓷胎草堂夜讀圖鼻煙壺
《挂月山庄》四字楷書款

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