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FOUR BLUE AND WHITE SNUFF A GROUP OF BLUE AND WHITE SNUFF A BLUE AND WHITE ‘BITTER MELON’
BOTTLES BOTTLES SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE
19th/20th century 19th century 18th/19th century
Including: a square bottle painted with ladies Including: a cylindrical ‘Red Cliff’ bottle, Of hexagonal lobed-form, moulded with
and boys, Qianlong seal mark; a miniature Yongzheng six-character mark; and a meiping short leaves at the shoulder, the exterior with
vase decorated with a boy presenting a form bottle painted with a pastoral landscape, pencil-drawn designs of a scrolling melon
scholar sage with his qin; and a ‘hundred Yongzheng six-character mark. vine.
boys’ bottle, Yongzheng four-character mark. The largest: 7.8cm (3in) high (5). 7cm (2 3/4in) high
The largest: 8.2cm (3 1/4in) high (4).
£800 - 1,200 £600 - 800
£1,000 - 1,500 CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$7,800 - 12,000 CNY5,200 - 6,900 HK$5,900 - 7,800
CNY8,700 - 13,000 HK$9,800 - 15,000
Provenance
Provenance Purchased at the Art & Antique Fair, Olympia
Purchased at the Art & Antique Fair, Olympia in the 1980’s.
in the 1980’s.

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