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AN ENAMELED BLUE-GROUND PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE A CELADON-GROUND PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
Daoguang iron-red four-character seal mark and of the period， Daoguang four-character iron-red mark and of the period, 1821-1850
1821-1850 The celadon ground painted in grisaille, with a continuous coastal
Of compressed spherical shape with a waisted neck, painted on an or lakeside mountain landscape with huts, pine and rockwork, a
overall deep-blue ground with a stylized floral design, possibly hibiscus compound in the foreground with a figure in the entrance and others
with curling white, apple-green and turquoise leaves and scrolling on a promontory; stopper.
stems with pencilled veining, each narrow side with a gilded shou 2 3/4in (7.1cm) high
character beneath a bat; stopper.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high $2,500 - 3,500
$2,200 - 2,800 道光 1821-1850 瓷胎淺绛山水隱士鼻煙壺 《道光年製》礬紅四字款

道光 1821-1850 藍地瓷胎花卉福壽鼻煙壺 《道光年製》礬紅篆書款 Provenance:
Gerry P. Mack
Provenance: Robert Kleiner, The Gerry P. Mack Collection, 23 March 1999
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Sotheby’s, New York, The Montclair Art Museum, 22 September 1995, Literature:
lot 66 Robert Kleiner, January 1999, Catalogue, no. 36

Exhibited: Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
November 2013, no. 62 New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 82

For a near identical bottle, but for the addition of lappets at the foot This appears to be an extremely rare bottle. The painting of a grisaille
and neck, and also bearing a Daoguang mark, see Christie’s, New landscape on a celadon ground, whilst found occasionally on ceramic
York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part IV, 15 March 2017, lot vessels from Jingdezhen, may be unique in snuff bottle production and
434 combined with the Imperial mark makes this a most uncommon bottle.

For two unmarked bottles of similar shape with scrolls on an iron-red
ground, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury
of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.
6 Part 2, Arts of the Fire, pp. 573-574, no. 1258 & 1259, where the
authors discuss the enameling of such non-standing bottles, with the
use of a rod that held the bottle upside down inside the kiln saggar.

For another bottle of similar shape but different color scheme, see
S.W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, London, 1924, p. 216, fig. 281 and
also illustrated in the ICSBS Journal, September 1975, p. 7, no. 11.

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