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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE For a very similarly painted bottle and a lengthy discussion on this
1800-1850 distinctive group of blue and white bottles that are copied from a group
Of compressed tear-drop shape supported on a reticulated waisted of agate bottles produced for, and probably at, the court during the
oval foot, the sloping shoulders with unusual high-relief butterfly latter half of the Qianlong period, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham,
handles, delicately painted with a continuous scene with a fisherman and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and
seated on rockwork below willow on one main convex face and a boy George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6 Part 2, Arts of the Fire, pp. 626-628,
riding backwards on the back of a water buffalo and reaching upward no. 1285.
for his wind-blown hat which rises in the sky above him to the reverse
side; stopper.
2 3/8in (5.9cm) high
$1,800 - 2,200

1800-1850 青花瓷胎牧童漁夫圖鼻煙壺

Provence:
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 2 May 1996, lot 1222 Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 8
May 1997

Literature:
ICSBS Journal, Spring 1998, p. 17, fig. 20

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 71

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