A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED AND RETICULATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE, JINGDEZHEN KILNS

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A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED AND RETICULATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE, JINGDEZHEN KILNS China, 1800-1880. Crisply and deeply molded and painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with a continuous palace garden scene depicting court ladies with children playing and frolicking, with reticulated panels in the windows and garden wall, enclosed by a purple fence, surrounded by green banana trees and blue craggy rocks. The neck with a blue band above a rose key-fret border. Stopper: Hardstone with metal collar and spoon. Dimensions: Height 8.7 cm The recessed base with an apocryphal iron-red four-character seal mark Qianlong nianzhi. The molding of porcelain was standard practice at Jingdezhen long before the snuff-bottle period. Molding allows for easy mass production and is well suited to the manufacture of porcelain. Instead of forming or decorating each individual piece, a carver uses a single mold, from which many identical pieces can be turned out. The use of complex molds for snuff bottles, which included extensive relief decoration and dictated the entire form of the bottle, flourished as an art from the late Qianlong period well into the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns. Literature comparison: Compare a related molded porcelain snuff bottle with ladies and children in a garden, Qianlong seal mark, dated 1800-1850, 7.6 cm tall, illustrated in Dennis G. Crow Ltd., A Catalogue of Chinese Snuff Bottles: Dennis G. Crow Ltd. 1992, Hong Kong, 1992, no. 70. Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie’s New York, 29 March 2022, lot 55 Price: USD 2,772 or approx. EUR 2,700 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, decoration, and subject.

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