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A painted caramel glass snuff Three enameled porcelain snuff An inside-painted glass
bottle bottles snuff bottle
Qianlong mark, 19th century 19th century Ma Shaoxian, 1899
The circular form bottle with a slightly waisted The first a well-potted rectangular bottle, Jiaqing The rounded rectangular bottle rising to a
neck, flat lip, painted in red, black and mark and of the period, the front and back cylindrical neck, flat lip, splayed oval foot ring,
green with fish and waterweed to one side, painted within reserves depicting figures at the interior painted with a continuous scene
the reverse displaying geese and reed; the leisure in a terrace setting, against sgraffito and depicting boys at play under a willow, one
recessed base bearing the Qianlong nianzhi enameled ground further decorated with leafy side dated jihai (1899), signed Ma Shaoxian,
mark in regular script. flowers, the underside with the four-character with a red seal mark reading Shao.
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high mark in seal script; the second a thin-walled 2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000 conjoined bottle, one section painted with a $3,000 - 4,000
female figure and a garden with a rooster, the
Provenance other featuring numerous birds and a blooming Provenance
the Bentleu Collection, U.K. prunus tree; the third a spade form bottle the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Belfont Ltd. (Robert Kleiner), 1995 decorated with a ‘one hundred boys’ theme to Belfont Co. Ltd. (Robert Kleiner)
each of its main sides, the underside bearing Thomas Van Nuys, San Francisco
Illustrated traces of a Qianlong mark in iron-red.
Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection 2 to 2 9/16in (5.1 to 6.5cm) high Illustrated
of Chinese Snuff Bottles, p.65 $2,000 - 3,000 Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection
of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 73
Provenance
left hand bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
C.Y.Tse, Hong Kong, 1986
middle bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Belfont Ltd. (Robert Kleiner), 1994
right hand bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Chinese Art and Crafts, Kowloon, 1985
Illustrated
left hand bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley
Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 114,
middle bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley
Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 103
right hand bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley
Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 111
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