Four underglaze blue and copper-red snuff bottles
Chinese Art
Four underglaze blue and copper-red snuff bottles
Qing Dynasty
The first of rounded square-section and painted to each side with boys at play, Qianlong six-character mark, 6.3cm high; a cylindrical example painted with a continuous scene of boys playing on a terrace, (bearing a fine crack), 7.5cm high; another similar bottle with a continuous scene of a warrior and horse with attendant figures beneath pine tree, 8.3cm high; and the fourth of tapering cylindrical-section with scene of a lone fisherman in a boat, 6.8cm high.
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Chinese Art
Four underglaze blue and copper-red snuff bottles
Qing Dynasty
The first of rounded square-section and painted to each side with boys at play, Qianlong six-character mark, 6.3cm high; a cylindrical example painted with a continuous scene of boys playing on a terrace, (bearing a fine crack), 7.5cm high; another similar bottle with a continuous scene of a warrior and horse with attendant figures beneath pine tree, 8.3cm high; and the fourth of tapering cylindrical-section with scene of a lone fisherman in a boat, 6.8cm high.
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