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Property from the Bentley Collection, London, United Kingdom
Lot 7191

Three enameled porcelain snuff bottles
19th century

Fine Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
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Three enameled porcelain snuff bottles

19th century
The first a well-potted rectangular bottle, Jiaqing mark and of the period, the front and back painted within reserves depicting figures at leisure in a terrace setting, against sgraffito and enameled ground further decorated with leafy flowers, the underside with the four-character mark in seal script; the second a thin-walled conjoined bottle, one section painted with a female figure and a garden with a rooster, the other featuring numerous birds and a blooming prunus tree; the third a spade form bottle decorated with a 'one hundred boys' theme to each of its main sides, the underside bearing traces of a Qianlong mark in iron-red.
2 to 2 9/16in (5.1 to 6.5cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
left hand bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
C.Y.Tse, Hong Kong, 1986

middle bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Belfont Ltd. (Robert Kleiner), 1994

right hand bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Chinese Art and Crafts, Kowloon, 1985

Illustrated:
left hand bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 114,

middle bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 103

right hand bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 111

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