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A MOULDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

Jingdezhen Imperial Kilns 景德镇官窑, Jiaqing mark and period, 嘉慶 1796–1820

Moulded porcelain decorated in various colored enamels and iron-red, depicting an official and his entourage aboard a junk sailing across scrolling waters, the other side depicting a dragon among clouds, a tiger and two warriors, the short cylindrical foot with a Jiaqing nian zhi (made during the Jiaqing period) mark in iron-red.

For an almost identical example with the same subject, see Sotheby's New York, The Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, 15 September 1998.

H: 7.1 cm

Provenance 起源: Linda F. Crawley

Published 发布: Asiantiques, A Fascination for Miniatures: The Linda F. Crawley Collection of Chinese Snuff (2008), cat. no. 90

Ref. 090-L0737

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A MOULDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

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