Lot 15
  • 15

A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN ‘BAJIXIANG’ SNUFF BOTTLE GUYUE XUAN MARK, QING DYNASTY, LATE QIANLONG / EARLY JIAQING PERIOD

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 HKD
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Description

  • porcelain

Provenance

Stempel Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 11th October 1979, lot 86.

Exhibited

Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, cat. no. p. 61, fig. 120.
Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang, and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 149.
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 1994-1995.

Literature

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 1160.

Condition

Tiny pieces of the enamel missing from the tip of the blue ribbons one one side. Otherwise, good conditon.
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