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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
735
A FAMILLE VERTE ‘DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE
Daoguang mark and of the period
Of compressed form with a rounded lip and a flat foot, the body
wrapped with a single four claw dragon in famille verte enamels,
surrounded by flames in green enamel, the foot with a four character
mark in iron red.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000
清道光 五彩蟒龍紋鼻煙壺 《道光年製》款

Provenance:
William A Parker Jr.

Distinct from the five clawed dragon, long, a motif of the emperor and
his closest relations, the four clawed dragon, mang, was an emblem
of those who obtained the highest ranks of the nobility at the Chinese
imperial court. It is likely that bottles bearing the four clawed dragon
were intended as gifts from the emperor, as explained in the note for a
735 very similar bottle in Moss, Graham and Tsang A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol 6 part 3, no
1321.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
736
A FAMILLE ROSE AND IRON-RED ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’
SNUFF BOTTLE
Daoguang mark and of the period
Of upright rounded rectangular form, with a flat lip and straight neck,
supported by a raised unglazed foot, the shoulders encircled by a
band of formalized lingzhi heads, one face with a dragon roundel in
iron red, reversed by a phoenix in famille rose enamels, with a four
character mark in iron red to the foot.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500

清道光 粉彩礬紅龍鳳紋鼻煙壺 《道光年製》款

Provenance:
William A Parker Jr.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
736 737
AN INSCRIBED DUAN STONE SNUFF BOTTLE
Imperial, 1760-1820
Well hollowed, with a flat lip and a recessed flat foot surrounded by
a flat oval foot rim, one side carved in low relief with two dragons
amid clouds and reversed by an incised couplet in regular script
reading ‘Duan creek is the birthplace of an excellent material; warm
and lustrous, it is like fine jade. Made by imperial command’, the
narrow sides with mask-and-ring handles, the lions with the distinctive
‘official’s hat.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high

$3,000 - 5,000
1760-1820年 御製螭龍紋詩句端石鼻煙壺

款識
端溪育良材 溫潤比美玉 御製

Provenance:
William A Parker Jr.

Duan stone bottles from this period often are adorned with this poetic
encomium, praising the quality of the stone, and thought to have been
originally composed by the Qianlong Emperor (reigned 1736-1796).
737 (two views) Many bottles of this type feature one face with stylized kui dragons
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