Page 11 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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A FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN ‘BATS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1790-1880

The pear-shaped bottle is decorated with iron-red bats in fight
amidst multi-colored clouds, and with fve bats (wufu) encircling
the seal mark on the rounded base. The base has a Qianlong four-
character seal mark in iron red.
2¿ in. (5.4 cm.) high, glass stopper

$6,500-8,500

PROVENANCE:

Bernice Straus Hasterlik Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 17
September 1996, lot 126.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2274.

EXHIBITED:

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

1790-1880年 粉彩雲蝠紋鼻煙壺

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