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A FINE IMPERIAL COPPER-RED DECORATED A BLUE AND WHIITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON’
PORCELAIN DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE TRIPLE-GOURD FORM SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 1790-1830 QING DYNASTY, 1780-1820
Together with a copper-red ‘dragon’ porcelain snuff dish inscribed The bottle is potted in the form of a flattened triple-gourd,
on the base with a Yongzheng four-character reign mark. painted in cobalt on a crackled beige glaze with a four-clawed
Bottle: 26 in. (6.8 cm.) high, tourmaline stopper; dragon pursuing a flaming pearl amidst clouds and another
Dish: 1æ in. (4.5 cm.) diam. (2) dragon rising from stylised waves. Together with a blue and
white porcelain ‘dragon’ snuff dish with a Yongzheng four-
HK$32,000-50,000 US$4,200-6,500 character reign mark.

PROVENANCE Bottle: 3º in. (8.4 cm.) high; glass stopper;
Bottle: The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Dish: 1æ in. (4.5 cm.) diam. (2)
Massachusetts, no. 2570, sold at Christie’s New York,
16 September 2015, lot 246 HK$20,000-40,000 US$2,600-5,100
Dish: The Blanche B. Exstein Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff PROVENANCE
Bottles, sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2002, lot 263 (part) Bottle: The Ko Collection, Italy
Sold at Christie’s London, 14 June 1971, lot 96
LITERATURE Dish: The Crane Collection, before April 2005
Bottle: Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water Pine and Stone
Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part One. Imperial Influence The unglazed interior on this extremely unusual blue and white triple-
over the Snuff Bottle Arts, Hong Kong, 2017, no. 21.3.1839 gourd (the upper bulb is waisted to form a third bulb) suggests an early
date, probably from the Jiaqing period, but possibly even before. The beige
biscuit and crackled glaze are of the type erroneously called ‘soft-paste’.
清1790-1830年 御製釉裡紅蒼龍教子鼻煙壺
（連雍正年製款釉裡紅龍紋鼻煙碟） 清1780-1820年 青花蒼龍教子紋葫蘆式鼻煙壺
（連雍正年製款青花雲龍紋鼻煙碟）
來源
壺：Ruth及Carl Barron珍藏，編號2570，紐約佳士得，2015 來源
年9月16日，拍品246號 壺：Ko珍藏，意大利
碟：Blanche B. Exstein 珍藏，紐約佳士得，2002年3月21日， 倫敦佳士得，1971年6月14日，拍品96號
拍品263號（其中之一） 碟：鶴聚堂珍藏，2005年4月以前
出版
壺：莫士撝、薩進德，《水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏：第一部 宮
廷風趣、技藝在鼻煙壺美術中所起的作用》，香港，2017
年，編號21.3.1839

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