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AN ENAMELED MOLDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE EXHIBITED
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Bottles made from this popular mold and similar Jiaqing-period
The bottle is crisply molded with a continuous scene of fgures in molds can be found in monochrome enamels and a series of
a boat collecting lotus blossoms on a stylized ground of swirling similarly enameled versions. For a similar Jiaqing-marked example
waves on one side, and on the reverse with a gentleman and lady and another Jiaqing-marked bottle covered overall in iron-red
in a pavilion gazing out at the lotus pond.
enamel, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuf
2æ in. (6.9 cm.) high, plastic stopper Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 2,
Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 467-69, nos. 1209 and 1210.
$6,000-8,000
清嘉慶 御製粉彩模印通景採蓮圖鼻煙壺 礬紅四字篆書款
PROVENANCE
Robert Hall, London, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 3077.
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