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Jiaqing four-character mark and of the period (1796-1820)
The elegant double gourd bottle molded in high relief with a network of leafy vines suspending double gourds, the design picked out in coral-red and green enamels set against the white ground porcelain body, the base plaque with a four-character Jiaqing mark, the floral stopper ensuite.
3 1/4in (8cm) high, stopper
Footnotes
清嘉慶 粉彩浮雕纏枝葫蘆形鼻煙壺一件
礬紅「嘉慶年製」篆書款
Provenance:
Property from an Important Private Collection, acquired in 1998
來源:
重要私人典藏,1998 年入藏
Porcelain bottles of this form, size and quality of molding are quite rare and quite coveted. Gourds on a vine evoke a wish for numerous descendants huluwandai, as a pun for mandai and can also allude to receiving blessings and promotions.
See an outstanding example of this form sold in our Hong Kong rooms from the George and Mary Bloch collection, 23 November 2010, lot 94, and illustrated by Moss, Graham, and Tsang, , Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 333-335, no. 1152. See another rare molded porcelain bottle with double gourds and bats, Mid Qing dynasty, formerly in the Collection of Margaret Goldney, sold also in our Hong Kong rooms, 24 November 2012, lot 545.