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265 PROVENANCE:
A FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN ‘MONKEYS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK Button Collection.
IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850) Robert Hall, London, 2003.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3872.
The bottle is decorated on both sides with playful adult and young
monkeys. On one side two monkeys hold each other’s paw while one EXHIBITED:
also holds a branch and the other a fower, below a wasp. The other
side depicts three monkeys, one holding a branch, and the narrow Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
sides are decorated with blue animal mask and oblong ring handles. Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
24 in. (6.3 cm.) high, glass stopper
LITERATURE:
$6,000-8,000
Robert Hall, The Button Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles X, London,
2003, no. 71.
For a similar Daoguang-marked bottle with identical scenes, but lacking the
mask handles found on the present example, see Xia Gengqi and Zhang
Rong (ed.), Masterpieces of Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
1995, p. 162, no. 165. Also see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of
Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong,
Volume 6, Part 3, p. 708, no. 1325, for an example that is very similar to
the present bottle, along with a discussion of the symbolism.
清道光 御製粉彩五猴圖鼻煙壺 礬紅四字篆書款
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