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AN ENAMELED AND MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING SEAK MARK IN IRON RED
AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The sides are fnely-molded in high relief with fower flled vases, lanterns, censers,
and vessels raised on stands amidst various scholar’s items and ‘antiques’,
all brightly enameled and reserved on a molded diaper ground.
2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, porcelain stopper and metal spoon
$8,000-10,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1998.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Molded porcelain snuf bottles were an innovation of the late Qianlong period and further
developed and fourished in the Jiaqing period, exemplifed by the current example.
A nearly identical bottle from The Reif Collection of Chinese Snuf Bottles was sold
at Christie’s New York, 18 October 1993, lot 8.
清嘉慶 御製粉彩模印博古圖鼻煙壺 礬紅四字篆書款
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