Bottle ID: 822

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TURQUOISE GROUND, LOTUS SCROLLS, MARK AND PERIOD

Date: 1821-1850

Height: 64 mm

A porcelain snuff bottle, of flattened rounded form, with shoulders sloping to a waisted neck with slightly everted gilded lip, decorated on each main side en grisaille with a central scrolling lotus flowerhead surrounded by leafy scrolls, reserved against a turquoise ground, the neck with a lingzhi band, the base with an iron-red four character Daoguang nian zhi mark and of the period.
Imperial, attributed to the Palace Kilns, Jingdezhen.

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art 
A Private Collection, Chicago, IL.

 

 

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