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A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED ‘HORSES’ SNUFF
BOTTLE
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG
6.5 cm, 2½ in.
PROVENANCE
Y.F. Yang, Hong Kong, 12th April 1973 (HK$3,600).
HK$ 15,000-20,000
US$ 1,950-2,550
The current bottle, with its depiction on each side of a horse by
itself, is a rare subject matter. For a Daoguang iron-red reign
marked porcelain snuff bottle, enamelled with equestrians from
the Qing court collection and still in Beijing, is illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Snuff
Bottles, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 341. See also an example with
an official, horse and dog on one side, and a Bactrian camel on
the reverse, illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo
Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George
Bloch Collection, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 2008, no. 1320, and sold at
Bonhams Hong Kong, 28th November 2011, lot 155.
清道光 粉彩馬圖鼻煙壺
《道光年製》款

Mark
來源：
503 同豐行，香港，1973年4月12日（HK$3,600）

504

AN AGATE ‘DUCKS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
SUZHOU, SCHOOL OF ZHITING, QING
DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY
5 cm, 2 in.
PROVENANCE
Y.F. Yang, Hong Kong, 14th December 1972 (HK$12,000).
HK$ 15,000-20,000
US$ 1,950-2,550

The present bottle is a fine example of the Suzhou School
of agate bottles. Created by a highly imaginative and skilled
carver, the abstract dark brown inclusions have been
skilfully incorporated into a lively exterior scene depicting
mandarin ducks amidst lotus and other flowers. Another
Suzhou agate snuff bottle of similar quality from the Kaynes-
Klitz collection and Joe Grimberg was sold in our New York
rooms, 14th September 2010, lot 145.

清十八至十九世紀 瑪瑙河畔鴨趣鼻煙
壺

來源：
同豐行，香港，1972年12月14日（HK$12,000） 504

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