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A BLUE AND WHITE “NINE BUDDHISTIC-LIONS” PORCELAIN
BOTTLE
1800-1900
Of cylindrical shape with flat shoulder and cylindrical neck, superbly
painted with nine Buddhistic lions each cavorting or sitting on
conjoined clouds, one with a ribboned ball under its front paws, a
small band of pendant ruyi on the neck, a shou character to the base.
2 15/16in (7.4cm) high, stopper

$2,000 - 3,000
1800-1900年 青花九獅圖鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Mechin collection Sothebys Parke Bernet 21 Nov 1974, lot 47
Alice B McReynolds Collection

Illustrated:
Lila S. Perry Chinese Snuff Bottles p. 79, fig 56

For another bottle of rounded square shape painted with a very similar
rendering of Buddhistic lions amidst clouds, see Robert W.L. Kleiner,
Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of John Ault, Hong Kong,
1990, p. 100, no. 175.

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