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A FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE
PERIOD (1821-1850)

Each convex side is decorated in famille rose enamels with a large katydid.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE:

Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 20 October 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1667.

The design of a katydid was particularly popular during the mid-Qing period, from the late Qianlong
reign into the Daoguang reign in the early nineteenth century. The motif is found on enameled glass
snuff bottles with Imperial Guyue Xuan marks (see Moss, Graham and Tsang, The Art of the Chinese
Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, New York, 1993, Volume I, pp. 346-347, no. 201, for an example).

A similar example from the Blanche B. Exstein Collection was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March (mark)
2002, lot 74.
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清道光 御製粉彩蟈蟈紋鼻煙壺 礬紅四字篆書款