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Provenance:
Dr. Dean Edell
Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Part
II, Sotheby’s New York, 30 October 1990, lot 132

Published:
Christopher Randall, The Wildness Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles
form the Dr. Edell Collection, 2018, no. 127

Exhibited:
July 14th - October 8th, 2000
Small Wonders Exhibition, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco,
California
Curated by Clarence Shangraw
702
A FAMILLE ROSE ‘LUOHAN’ SNUFF BOTTLE
19th century
In the form of a wine jar with a narrow mouth and a gilded lip, two
molded fixed ring mask handles high on the shoulder, the body with
a continuous procession of the eighteen luohan, with a dragon amid
colored clouds above.
1 3/4in (4.4cm) high 702 (two views)

$1,000 - 1,500
十九世紀 粉彩十八羅漢圖鼻煙壺
703
A FAMILLE VERTE ‘DOVES AND DOG’ SNUFF BOTTLE
1889, Shende Tang mark
Of upright form with sloping shoulders, a rounded lip and supported
by an unglazed foot rim, one side enameled with a pekingese dog
and bamboo, reversed by two doves with an orchid, with an inked
dedication dated jichou (1889) to ‘older brother’ Cizhuang, from Guo
Ziliang, with an iron red mark to the foot.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500

己丑年（1889年） 五彩鴿鳩福狗紋鼻煙壺 《慎德堂製》款

703 (two views)

704
A FAMILLE ROSE ‘MAGPIES AND PLUM BLOSSOMS’ SNUFF
BOTTLE
Daoguang mark and of the period
Of rounded rectangular shape, delicately enameled with a continuous
scene of thirty magpies in and around the branches of a blossoming
plum tree, with an iron red seal mark to the foot.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000

清道光 粉彩喜鵲登梅紋鼻煙壺

704

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