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A MOLDED GREEN-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE ANHUA-INCISED SNUFF BOTTLES
Daoguang seal mark and of the period, Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen Likely Imperial, 1800-1880
Of slightly compressed ovoid form with a flat gilt lip, a cylindrical neck, Each of cylindrical from, incised and molded on the biscuit body, one
molded in low relief with a black and green enamelled dragon chasing bottle with a five-clawed dragon amid clouds, the eyes picked out in
a flaming pearl, the teeth and claws highlighted in white, the base with cobalt blue; the second bottle with two butterflies amid flowers, the
a four character Daoguang nianzhi seal mark in iron-red. eyes also in blue, covered in a clear glaze, each unglazed foot cut with
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high thirteen concentric rings.
$4,000 - 6,000 3 5/8in (9.2cm) high, each bottle
$3,000 - 5,000
清道光 御製模印綠彩遊龍戲珠紋鼻煙壺 《道光年製》礬紅篆書款
1800-1880年 擬御製 青花刻暗花龍紋鼻煙壺一對
Provenance
Collection of Yu-Sheng Louise Feng, brought from China, late 1940’s Provenance
Collection of Yu-Sheng Louise Feng, brought from China, late 1940’s
A similar bottle is illustrated in H. Moss, V. Graham and K.B. Tsang,
A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Vol. 6, no. 1336, with another A bottle of nearly identical form and decoration to the present dragon
in Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains far from the World: bottle is illustrated in Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library,
The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York, 1994, pp. 32-33, Dublin Chinese Snuff Bottles, no 219, p. 202. The author also
no. 5, and a third was in the Marian Mayer Collection, illustrated by notes a bottle of similar description is listed in the 1876 publication
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, London, 1989, p. 21, no. 13. Bibliotheca Nicotiana of William Bragge. Although bottles of this
Whereas the majority of published examples have the pearl and shape and design are more commonly decorated in underglaze blue
dragon’s tongue in iron-red, another example solely in green and (see Hugh Moss “The Wrong End of the Dragon” in Journal, Winter
black enamels was in the Dicker collection and sold in these rooms, 2008, pp 16-22 for several examples), a third bottle with solely the
16 March 2005, lot 1008. dragon’s eyes in blue was sold at Sothebys New York, 17 March
1997, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, lot 317.
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