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(two views) AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG FOUR-
441 CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD
(1821-1850)
The bottle is decorated on either side with a circular panel depicting a
dragonfly and katydid on flowering plants, and with raised oval panels
on either narrow side depicting peaches, plum blossoms and bamboo.

2¿ in. (5.4 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

H. Van Rensselaer Wilson Collection.
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2528.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Convention, The Barron
Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
玂ᡱ䕩ㅳ≢袐虈蚔⥶ᡱ゛⥘聖㌉█⤠㝹妑栦

(mark)

Ť441
A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS ‘DOUBLE-GOURD’
SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1860
The transparent ruby-red glass overlay is carved through to the
milky-white ground with a continuous design of double-gourds
growing on curling vines amongst flat, circular leaves, raised on three
of the gourds forming the feet.

2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2531.

For a very similar bottle see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of
Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5,
Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 483-485, no. 901.
䍆邘⥶㍩蔶∇㝳㞓ջ聖㌉

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