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AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG
TWO-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED
AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The jar-shaped bottle is decorated with a scene of three chickens
and two butterfies, and a rose growing amidst the rocks.
1æ in. (4.4 cm.), glass stopper
$3,000-4,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1996.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2048.
清道光 御製粉彩公雞圖鼻煙壺 礬紅方框二字篆書款

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A GREEN AND PINK-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS PROVENANCE
SNUFF BOTTLE Joseph Neumann.
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1780-1840 Robert Hall, London, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2887.
The bottle is deeply carved through the opaque sage-green and pink
EXHIBITED
outer layers to the opaque white ground with a fgure riding a donkey Corning, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, 2007-2008.
approaching a pavilion on one side, and on the reverse with two men Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
playing go while a third observes, the scene framed by a pine tree The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
and bamboo, all below a band of pendent leaves on the neck.
LITERATURE
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, metal stopper R. Hall, Chinese Whispers, Chinese Snuf Bottles IX, London, 1999,
no. 47.
$2,000-3,000
1780-1840年 御製白地套雙色玻璃人物故事圖鼻煙壺

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