An enamelled porcelain 'dogs and doves' snuff bottle Daoguang four-character iron-red seal mark and of the period
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A 'famille rose' enamel on porcelain 'Pekinese dogs and doves' snuff bottle
Daoguang iron-red four-character seal mark and of the period
Of flattened globular form supported on a recessed oval foot, enamelled on one side with two frolicking Pekinese dogs and the other with a pair of doves, all flanked by a pair of taotie mask handles at the shoulders.
5.3cm high.
Sold for HK$ 68,750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 清道光 瓷胎畫粉彩狗與鴿子鼻煙壺 礬紅「道光年製」篆書款

    Provenance 來源:
    Christie's London, 15 July 1981, lot 422
    Collection of Jacqueline Sheldon

    The motif of Pekinese dogs with doves is a popular one in the Daoguang period, apparently because his exalted concubine was fond of little dogs, and he was a breeder of pigeons. For a closely related example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2003, pg.227, no.348. See also an example of a Daoguang reign-marked snuff bottle with two doves, but just one dog, in the Mary and George Bloch collection, see Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Volume 6, Hong Kong, 2008, pg.710, no.1327.

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Snuff bottles from the collection of Jacqueline Sheldon (neé Anisfeld), purchased at London auctions in the 1970s under the guidance of Hans Goldsteinher (lots 201-212)

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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