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A MOLDED FAMILLE-ROSE SNUFF AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF TWO INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS
BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY BOTTLE SNUFF BOTTLES

with a scene of courtiers on pavilion steps, the 20TH CENTURY LATE QING DYNASTY
reverse with two men on horseback with swords
drawn and two bannermen in a mountainous of rounded rectangular form, painted with four each of compressed ask form, the rst depicting
landscape, the base with apocryphal Qianlong boys seated at a kang table, gossiping over an eagle and a badger in a grove, the reverse
mark, together with a famille-verte snu jarlet textbooks, the reverse with poetic inscription with with a rock, prunus, chrysanthemum and apples,
painted with two crabs with a stalk of bamboo cyclical date mark corresponding to 1914 and signed Yan Yutian with one seal and cyclical date
and grapes, stoppers (4) signed Ma Shaoxuan with one seal, stopper (2) mark corresponding to 1895; the second painted
Height of taller 2¼ in., 5.8 cm Height 2⅜ in., 5.9 cm with a scholar with his qin traveling through a
mountainous landscape, the reverse with birds
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE above a hillside growing chrysanthemums, the
Collection of Georgia Roode. side with Yan Yutian seal mark, stoppers (4)
The molded snu bottle: Collection of Anita Clare Lawrence, Ltd., London, 1997. Height of taller 2¾ in., 7 cm
Tilton, Wisconsin. Collection of J. Holmes, Australia.
The jarlet: Collection of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., PROVENANCE
Chicago. $ 3,000-4,000
The ‘scholar’ bottle: Collection of Mary Morrison,
Ⴚ$ 1,500-2,000 Ḵ⋩ᶾ䲨ġġġ䍣䐫ℏ䔓⾝㚠⚾滣䄁⢢ Vancouver.
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