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                                                          A FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
                                                          IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN
                                                          IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD, 1780-1799

                                                          Each side is decorated with a panel of four of the Eight Immortals
                                                          holding their attributes surrounded by formal fower sprays reserved
                                                          on a ruby sgraffato ground.
                                                          2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, turquoise stopper with opalescent fnial

                                                          $6,000-8,000

                                                          PROVENANCE:

                                                          Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 25 March 1995.
                                                          Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1778.

                                                          EXHIBITED:

                                                          Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
                                                          Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

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