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NINE BLUE AND WHITE SOFT PASTE A FAMILLE ROSE ‘COCKERELS’ SNUFF AN IRON-RED ENAMELLED ‘LOTUS’
PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES BOTTLE SNUFF BOTTLE
19th/20th century Guangxu six-character mark and probably of 19th century
Comprising: two cylindrical bottles decorated the period The baluster body finely enamelled with a
with dragons; a pear-shaped bottle with The high-shouldered, cylindrical bottle brightly lotus flower head meander, the shoulders
pencil-drawn decoration of dragons chasing enamelled with five cockerels of variously flanked with small handles.
flaming pearls amongst peonies, Yongzheng coloured plumage. 7.4cm (3in) high
six-character mark; a bottle decorated with 6.3cm (2 1/2in) high
a landscape, also Yongzheng six-character £1,200 - 1,500
mark; a pair of hexagonal jars decorated with £1,000 - 1,500 CNY10,000 - 13,000 HK$12,000 - 15,000
a domestic scene of a school, shou symbols CNY8,700 - 13,000 HK$9,800 - 15,000
to bases; a flattened flask with pencil-drawn Provenance
decoration of lotus and chrysanthemum, Provenance The D.A. Ionides Collection
Xue Xiang mark; and two cylindrical bottles Sotheby’s, New York, 23 and 24 March 1998,
painted with literary scenes. lot 112 Christie’s, London, 13 June 1990, lot 521
The largest, 8.8cm (3 1/2in) high (9). (part lot)

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,700 - 13,000 HK$9,800 - 15,000

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