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260 This bottle is one of a rare group of sets created at the imperial kilns in
A RARE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN QUADRILOBED SNUFF BOTTLE imitation of cloisonné. Most of these sets are in the imperial collection in
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN Taipei. Versions exist in the present quadrilobed shape, double-gourd form,
IRON RED IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820) a bulbous pear shape, and a lobed meiping form, although the present
shape appears to be one of the rarest. A double-gourd example with a
The bottle is decorated in imitation of cloisonné enamel with a large Jiaqing mark is illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
lotus fower surrounded by foliate scroll on either convex side, and Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 2,
small fower sprays on the narrow sides, all in gilt-outlined enamels of Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 558-559, no. 1251, where the group is discussed.
red, blue, white and yellow color on a turquoise ground.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper For a quadrilobed meiping-form bottle see Geng Baochang and Zhao
Binhua (eds.), Zhongguo biyanhu zhenshang (Gems of Chinese Snuff
$6,000-8,000 Bottles), Hong Kong, 1992, no. 133. Sets from the National Palace
Museum, Taipei are illustrated in Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the
PROVENANCE: National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991,p. 120, no. 84, (bulbous pear
shape), p. 122, 124, nos. 86 and 88 (double-gourd-form).
Galerie di Donna, Paris, 1989.
Robert Hall, London, 2012. 清嘉慶 御製松石綠地粉彩開光蓮紋海棠式鼻煙壺
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5354.
礬紅四字篆書款
LITERATURE:

Robert Hall, The White Orchid Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles XVII,
London, 2012, no. 77.

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