A FINE WHITE-GLAZED MOLDED PORCELAIN BOTTLE

JIAQING IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL-MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FINE WHITE-GLAZED MOLDED PORCELAIN BOTTLE
Jiaqing Iron-Red Four-Character Seal-Mark and of the Period
Of rounded spade shape, unusually finely modeled with nine Buddhistic lions chasing five ribboned balls on a reticulated cloud ground over a solid ground between ruyi-heads above the foot and key-pattern at the waisted neck, stopper
2.5/8in. (6.7cm.) high,

拍品专文

For another white-glazed example, also Jiaqing marked, see Alexander Brody, Old Wine into Old Bottles, A Collector's Commonplace Book, pp. 48-9 and p. 150, no. 148. For an identically molded bottle painted in a coral-red glaze with gilt highlights see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, Catalogue, p. 166, no. 223

It is believed that this particular group of porcelain bottles was made to imitate Imperial ivory bottles made for the Qianlong Emperor, and most likely made from the molds taken directly from the ivory bottles