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673
TWO PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES WITH FAMILLE ROSE
ENAMELS
Qianlong marks, but later
One of flattened oviform shape, painted with white prunus blossom
on a knotted branch to one side and pink blossoms to the other, iron-
red Qianlong four-character seal mark in a line to the base; together
with a cylindrical bottle painted with pink prunus blossoms, lily and
chrysanthemum or daisy, iron-red four-character regular script mark
to base.
2 13/16in (7.1cm) and 2 1/2in (6.3cm) high, stoppers
$1,000 - 1,500

粉彩花卉紋鼻煙壺兩隻
674
AN TURQUOISE-GROUND ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF
BOTTLE
1790-1850
Of tapering baluster shape, each main face with a large molded oval
panel with loose flower sprays in pink, puce and iron-red and dividing
iron-red painted landscape panels on the narrow sides with further
smaller floral panels on the turquoise-green enamel ground.
3 1/8in (7.8cm) high, stopper
$800 - 1,200

1790-1850年 瓷胎琺瑯釉花卉紋鼻煙壺

For another example of near identical type, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese
Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Denys and Eithne Cowell, Hong
Kong, 2003, p. 4, no. 1, where the author cites another, lacking the
iron-red side panels, illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka
Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection,
674 Vol. 2, no. 230.

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