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A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 1

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 2

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 3

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 4

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 5

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 6

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 7

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 8

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 9

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 10

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 11

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 12

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 13

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 14

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 15

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 16

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 17

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 18

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 19

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 20

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 21

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 22

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 23

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 24

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 25

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 26

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle Qianlong four character mark image 27

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Lot 51

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle
Qianlong four character mark

Asian Art including a private collection of Chinese paintings

25 October 2017, 18:30 AEDT

Sydney

Sold for AU$8,540 inc. premium

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A Chinese famille-rose porcelain moulded and enamelled 'double-gourd' snuff bottle

Qianlong four character mark
height: 5.0 cm

Footnotes

The prototype of this bottle is well-known. The Qianlong-period examples are in the J & J Collection, Moss, Graham, and Tsang 1993, no. 231; Lady David 1973, no. 836; JICSBS, Summer 1988, inside cover; Geng and Zhao, no. 122; Li Jiufang 2002, no. 311, and etc. One from the Bloch collection was sold with Bonhams Hong Kong for HK$8,384,000 on 23 Nov 2010, lot 121, sale 18592.

粉彩描金匏形鼻煙壺　乾隆四字篆書款

註：
該壺乾隆年間的原型多有現於各大鼻煙收藏。2010年11月23日香港邦瀚斯推出莊氏收藏，其中一例以八百余萬港幣成交，見拍賣18592，拍品121。

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