Page 101 - Carl Barron Snuff Bottle Collection, CHRISTIE's Spet 12 2018

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AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE The present example is related to a group of fnely painted bottles
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG from the Daoguang period made in sets for the Court to distribute
FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED as gifts. The group is frequently decorated with pairs of doves on
AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850) both sides, although it was not uncommon for some bottles to be
painted with doves on one side, and Pekinese dogs on the other.
The bottle is decorated with a pair of Pekinese dogs on one side
and a pair of doves next to a blossoming orchid plant on the reverse. It would appear that the Daoguang Emperor and his consort were
fond of doves and small dogs, respectively, so the two subjects
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, plaster stopper were popular on Imperial snuf bottles of the period.
$5,000-7,000
A bottle decorated with both doves and small dogs in The Ruth
PROVENANCE and Carl Barron Collection: Part I, was sold at Christie’s New
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2001. York, 16 September 2015, lot 233; and another in The Ruth and
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuf Bottles: Part II, at
no. 3106.
Christie’s New York, 16 March 2016, lot 576; another enameled
porcelain snuf bottle, featuring only Pekinese dogs, is illustrated
by H. Moss in Snuf Bottles of China, London, 1971, no. 306.
清道光 御製粉彩雙鴿雙犬圖鼻煙壺 礬紅四字篆書款
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