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~829
A SLIP DECORATED AND ENAMELED STONEWARE SNUFF
BOTTLE
YIXING, 1820-1850
The bottlle features a slip-decorated panel on either side set against the
overall blue-enameled body. The panel on one side depicts a pair of
doves in front of a bamboo grove, and the other side depicts a pair of
Pekingese dogs beneath a fruiting pomegranate branch.
2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high, coral stopper
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Bob C. Stevens Collection, no. 336
Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob
C. Stevens, Part I; Sotheby’s Honolulu, 7 November 1981, lot 69.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.

EXHIBITED:
Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles From The
Bob C. Stevens Collection, 22-31 October 1978, cat. no. 92.
LITERATURE:
H. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles Four: A Magazine for the collector and student
of Chinese Snuff-Bottles, London, 1966, p. 45, fig. 11.
Arts of Asia, September-October 1973, p. 45, fig. 11.
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 336.
JICSBS, December 1979 and March 1980, p. 13, fig. 4.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 126-127,
no. 50.

A nearly identical bottle was sold in Snuff Bottles from the Tuyet Nguyet
and Stephen Markbreiter Collection Part I, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June
2021, lot 1022.

1820-1850年 宜興紫砂藍地加彩開光北京犬圖鼻煙壺

來源:
Bob C. Stevens珍藏, 編號336
Bob C. Stevens珍藏重要中國鼻煙壺 (第一部分), 檀香山蘇富比, 1981年11月
7日, 拍品編號69
何瑞秋珍藏, 紐約
展覽:
東京御木本會館, 「Bob C. Stevens珍藏中國鼻煙壺」, 1978年10月22至31日,
圖錄編號92
出版:
莫士撝, 《Chinese Snuff Bottles Four: A Magazine for the collector and
student of Chinese Snuff-Bottles》, 倫敦, 1966年, 頁45, 圖11
《Arts of Asia》, 1973年9-10月, 頁45, 圖11
B. Stevens, 《鼻煙壺收藏指南》, 紐約, 1976年, 編號336
《國際中國鼻煙壺協會學術期刊》, 1979年12月及1980年3月, 頁13, 圖4
何瑞秋, 《Rivers and Mountains Far from the World - The Rachelle R.
Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁126-127, 編
號50

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