Six Porcelain Snuff Bottles Height of tallest 3 1/4 inches.
19TH CENTURY
comprising four blue and white examples, the first of circular form, painted to the front with two immortals Hehe Erxian, the underside bearing an apocryphal Yongzheng four-character mark in underglaze blue, the second of cylindrical form, painted overall with twelve zodiac, the underside bearing an apocryphal Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue, the third a double bottle decorated with foliate scrolls, the fourth of small baluster form painted with blooming lotus flowers amongst scrolling vines; a blue and white and underglaze red example of cylindrical form, decorated with three camels outside a gate; a ge- type example of baluster form.
Height of tallest 3 1/4 inches.
Provenance:
Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nipon, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Sotheby's New York, October 14, 1994, lot 103