Lot 105
  • 105

A blue and white porcelain snuff bottle 1780-1830

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Description

of ovoid form, painted with formalized Indian lotus flower-heads borne on meandering scrolls

Catalogue Note

This is one of a series of nineteenth-century blue-and-white snuff bottles of ovoid or cylindrical form with Indian-lotus decoration. They match a series of similarly decorated snuff dishes, and were presumably made to be used together. This example is unusually well drawn and of good, vivid color.