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Lot 269
  • 269

Two molded porcelain snuff bottles 1796-1830

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Description

one molded and painted with the 'Hundred Antiques,' Jiaqing mark and period, the other a unique pear-shaped porcelain bottle with a dragon and fenghuang, painted in famille-rose enamels and gilt (2)

Catalogue Note

Bier nos. 148, 84

Another example from the same mold as the so-called ‘Hundred Antiques’ bottle, from the Imperial Collection in Beijing, is illustrated on the front cover of Zhu Peichu and Xia Gengqi Biyanhu shihua, 1991.