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A FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN ‘MAGPIE AND PRUNUS’ SNUFF
BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1780-1820

The domed, cylindrical body is decorated all over with magpies
perched in fowering prunus branches bearing pink or white
blossoms.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE:

Alice Klein Collection.
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2011.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2012.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5330.

A similar example of slightly more elongated form is illustrated by M.
Hughes in The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton
University Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, p. 174, no. 218.

1780-1820年 粉彩「喜上眉梢」圖鼻煙壺

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A CARVED SILHOUETTE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1770-1850

The bottle is a pale honey tone and carved on one side utilizing
darker inclusions with a mythical feline on a rock with two bats
above and one below.
2æ in. (6.7 cm.) high, rose quartz stopper

$2,500-3,500

PROVENANCE:

Robert Hall, London.
Hugh Moss, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4832.

1770-1850年 瑪瑙巧雕北京狗鼻煙壺

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