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•283 The decorative style of this bottle was likely infuenced by Jesuit
AN EXTREMELY RARE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN missionaries who often spent time in Guangzhou while awaiting
SNUFF BOTTLE permission from the government to travel north. It is pointed out
BOTTLE JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DECORATION by Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles, The
GUANGZHOU, 1780-1850 Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 1, Hong Kong, 2008,
The ovoid bottle is decorated on either side with a portrait, one of p. 296, that an underlying theme of many bottles, be they from
a man, the other a lady, each before an elaborate fabric backdrop, Beijing or Guangzhou, is the presence of “a framing curtain draped
and surrounded by scrolling foliage and fowers. across the top and down one side of the design. In many cases,
these can be seen as interior curtains, perhaps draping a window,
2√ in. (7.3 cm.) high, glass stopper or at least sensibly inside the building.”
$6,000-8,000 The current bottle is rare in that it exhibits an interior draped
curtain, but features Chinese fgures. The color palette is similar to
PROVENANCE that found on export porcelains of the period.
Asiantiques, Winter Park, Florida, 1998. 1780-1850年 廣彩人物圖鼻煙壺
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2554.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
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