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TWO ENAMELED MOLDED PORCELAIN
SNUFF BOTTLES
19th century
The first enameled in famille-rose, one side
molded with a scene of three figures in a boat,
the other side with three figures on animal
mounts and their attendants, the neck and
shoulders applied with scrolling clouds; the
second molded with mythical beasts against
a wave ground, enameled in shades of gray,
brown and orange, both bottles’ bases with
four-character Qianlong marks in iron-red.
3in (7.5cm) high, the taller

US$3,000 - 5,000
十九世紀 瓷胎模印加彩鼻煙壺兩件

Provenance
Mythical beasts bottle: Sotheby’s, New York,
17 September 1996, lot 140
Collection of Bernice Straus Hasterlick

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A FAMILLE-VERTE ENAMELED
PORCELAIN ‘KATYDID’ SNUFF BOTTLE
Daoguang mark of the period
Each side painted with a katydid, one in
profile, the other resting on its open cage
decorated with a wan-fret diaper pattern, the
base inscribed with a four-character mark in
iron-red.
2 3/8in (5.7cm) high
US$4,000 - 6,000

清道光 五彩蟈蟈紋鼻煙壺 《道光年製》款

This design first appears as a snuff bottle
decoration during the late Qianlong period
and reached the height of its popularity
during the Daoguang period. A similar bottle
in the Imperial Collection is illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, vol. 47, Snuff Bottles, Hong
Kong, 2003, no.351; and another example
is illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham
and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch
Collection, vol. 6, part 3, Hong Kong, 2007,
no. 1318.

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