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A RARE FAMILE ROSE SHOE-SHAPED SNUFF BOX The form apparently follows an original soft-paste model of a shoe-
Qianlong period, circa 1780 shaped snuffbox made at Mennecy (France) in about 1750. Others
In the form of ladies high-heeled shoe with slender pointed toe and have suggested that the clunky shape rather resembles a Dutch clog,
square heel, painted with loose flower sprays in famille rose and gilt, and therefore a Delft protype is more probable. ‘Shoe-shaped’ water
a buckled strap crosses the tongue with highlights in iron-red and droppers are also known made in earlier Chinese porcelain, but these
gilt below a sharp tooth-edged band, mounted with a later European water droppers are of Chinese ‘slipper’ type rather than a Europeans
hinged white-metal cover. shoe such as this rare example. Other 18th century examples are also
4in (10cm) long known made in tin-glazed earthenware by Dutch potters at Delft and
called by them ‘Posey vases’.
$1,500 - 2,000
See also another pair with up-curling pointed toe, circular heel and a
乾隆時期 約1780年 稀有粉彩鞋形鼻烟盒 strap rather than a buckle at the tongue, offered as lot 111 in this sale.

Published: References: Santos & Allen, 2005, p. 130, no. 46, a similar shoe snuff
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, p. 98, no. 56 box; Cohen & Cohen, 1999, no. 21, another similar example; Sargent,
1991, p. 160, another.
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014年B，
頁98，圖版編號56

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