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A FAMILLE VERTE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF 清道光 五彩龍戲珠紋鼻煙壺 礬紅「道光年製」
BOTTLE 篆書款（連五彩雙龍戲珠鼻煙碟）
DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF
THE PERIOD (1821-1850) 來源
Together with a famille verte porcelain snuff dish decorated with 壺：香港私人珍藏
two dragons pursuing a flaming pearl, inscribed on the base with 碟：鶴聚堂珍藏，2005年4月以前
wanyu.
Bottle: 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, chalcedony stopper;
Dish: 18 in. (4.9 cm.) diam. (2) 出版
壺：莫士撝、薩進德，《水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏：第一部 宮
HK$30,000-50,000 US$3,900-6,400 廷風趣、技藝在鼻煙壺美術中所起的作用》，香港，2017
年，編號21.3.1093
PROVENANCE
Bottle: A Hong Kong private collection
Dish: The Crane Collection, before April 2005

LITERATURE
Bottle: Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water Pine and
Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part One. Imperial
Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts, Hong Kong, 2017, no.
21.3.1093 (mark)
This is one of a series of Imperial porcelain bottles made in sets during
the Daoguang period, but is not of any of the more standard dragon-
designs for such bottles. It is unusual in having the raised panels on
four sides, and in the full-frontal pose of the dragon (which also occurs
on dragon-robes for the Court), the cloud-design on the narrow sides is
also unusual. These dragon-bottles have either four or five claws. If the
former, they were made to be presented to ennobled Courtiers as gifts
from the Emperor, if the latter, for the Imperial family.

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