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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL SNUFF BOTTLE This is a fascinating but curious little oddity in cloisonne production.
1850-1900 Clearly its production must date to the later part of the Qing dynasty
Of small shield-shape, enameled in bright colors on a white ground to but it does not appear to follow any of the traditional models for
each main face with two ladies seated at a low table playing go, the cloisonne bottle production. No other appears to be published and it
narrow-flattened sides with gilt-wire key-pattern on an apple-green should really be considered a miniature given its relatively small size.
ground, a tall slightly everted neck; stopper. This, coupled with the subject matter that appears to show two ladies
1 3/4in (4.4cm) high at a table playing go, may indicate that this bottle was intended for a
ladies use.
$2,000 - 2,500
1850-1900 掐絲琺瑯「弈棋仕女」圖鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Russell Mullin
Bob C. Stevens
Sotheby’s, New York, The Bob C. Stevens Collection, 26 March 1982,
lot 207
Bai Shi Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, The Bai Shi Collection, 22 November 1988, lot
29

Literature:
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and
Tokyo, 1976, no. 939

Exhibited:
Detroit Institute of Art, April-October, 1986
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 38

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