10 - A RARE ‘FAMILLE-ROSE’ PORCELAIN ‘LOTUS’ DOUBLE-GOURD SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE, IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1796-1820

A RARE ‘FAMILLE-ROSE’ PORCELAIN ‘LOTUS’ DOUBLE-GOURD SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE, IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1796-1820 To Be Sold Without Reserve Of compressed double-gourd shape with a wide mouth, flat lip and no foot; painted with an overall design of formalized Indian lotus on a pale turquoise ground, with gold-enamel details, the base inscribed in gold- enamel seal-script, Jiaqing nian zhi (‘Made in the Jiaqing period’) Height: 6.44cm Provenance: House of Precious, Hong Kong, 1999 Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, 11th May 2000, (a copy of the original invoice available) Illustrated: Front cover ICSBS JOURNAL, Winter 2006, Volume XXXVIII, number 3 This is one of a rare group of bottles painted with gilt detail and a gilt reign mark. For two complete sets of ten, still in their original boxes in the Imperial Collection, see Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, p. 122, no. 86 and p.124, no. 88, where no. 95, a set of four with red enamel Jiaqing marks (the mark shown in the catalogue is the wrong one), are similar in form and decoration. Of a different shape, but similar style of decoration, no. 84, p. 120, is another set of ten. Outside of the Imperial collection, however, they are extremely rare Ω This Lot was imported from outside of the UK, under the Temporary Admission regime 5% import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer” and 20% VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium