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AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
Qianlong four-character iron-red seal mark and possibly late Qianlong four-character mark and possibly late in the period
in the period of shield shape below a waisted neck and everted rim, painted on
of flattened ovoid form rising to a flared neck, painted with a woman each main face with a crowded scene depicting the dragon-boat races
on a boat holding a lotus, another lady paddling the vessel, the reverse in front of a pavilion, the narrow sides with an iron-red scroll, stopper.
showing a similar scene with two further ladies collecting lotus blooms 2 1/4in (5.8cm) high
in a boat, with three men in a pavilion alongside, the narrow sides with
iron-red scrolling foliage, stopper $2,500 - 3,500
2 1/4in (5.9 cm) high
擬乾隆晚期 瓷胎粉彩繪龍舟圖鼻煙壺 《乾隆年製》四字款
$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance:
1790-1830 瓷胎粉彩繪採蓮圖鼻煙壺 《乾隆年製》四字礬紅篆書款 Robert Kleiner, 30 March 2003

Provenance: Exhibited:
Ralph Dessau International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
Michael C. Hughes LLC, The Ralph Dessau Collection, March, 2004 November 2013, no. 96

Literature: For another example in the Metropolitan Museum from the Altman
ICSBS Journal, Summer 1996, p. 17, fig. 18-19 Bequest of 1913, see www.Metmuseum, accession no. 14.46:571a/b
Michael C. Hughes, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Ralph
Dessau, Hong Kong, 2004, p. 46, no. 35 For a bottle with a boys subject but of identical shape, with slightly
recessed convex panels but radically flattened form with wide flaring
For a molded enameled porcelain bottle with a similar scene on one neck, considered a standard from the late-Qianlong reign into the
side bearing a Jiaqing seal mark (1796-1820), see Michael C. Hughes, Jiaqing, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury
The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.
Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, p. 192, no. 249. A large group of 6, Part 2, Arts of the Fire, pp. 403-404, no. 1179.
these molded bottles exist and most bear Jiaqing marks, some have
Qianlong marks and some no marks at all. This suggests that the The Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu), is held on the fifth day of the fifth
molded group may have been produced after Qianlong’s abdication lunar month to commemorate the life of the patriot-poet Qu Yuan who
but before his death in 1799. The plain painted examples (like this lived in the third century BCE but who drowned himself at the Miluo
bottle) may indeed be earlier than the molded group but it is certainly River near Lake Dongting as a protest against the decadent court,
safe to assume that they were produced within a few years of which collapsed consequently, see Therese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden
each other. Meanings in Chinese Art, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
2006, p. 279, 10.10-12.

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