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AN IMPERIAL INCISED AND CRACKLED ‘ANHUA’ WHITE-
GLAZED SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN BOTTLE
Incised Qianlong seal mark and of the period, 1736-1795
Incised on each side under a creamy white glaze with a scaly dragon
chasing a flaming pearl above wave; stopper.
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high
$5,500 - 7,500

乾隆 1736-1795 米白釉開片瓷胎暗花龍戯珠鼻煙壺 陰刻乾隆篆書款

Provenance:
John Ault
Robert Kleiner, The John Ault Collection, 25 March 2002

Literature:
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, 1977, no. 203 ICSBS Journal,
June 1978, p. 43
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault,
Hong Kong, 1990, p. 92 , no. 157

Exhibited:
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, no. 203
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 91

For an un-marked anhua dragon bottle of shouldered cylindrical shape,
see Christie’s New York, The Meriem Collection, 19 September 2007,
lot 687 and a lengthy description of the anhua technique. Kleiner in his
publication of the John Ault Collection, op. cit., illustrates alongside
this bottle, another of identical shape painted in cobalt blue with the
identical scene and also bearing a Qianlong mark.

For another of cylindrical form, also incised with a Qianlong mark to the
base, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Masterpieces from the
Rietberg Museum Zurich, Zurich, 1993, pp. 36-37, no. 12.

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