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  • Porcelain

  • Figural bottle

  • Porcelain Snuff Bottle, moulded in the form of a fish, well modeled with scales, fins and eyes, covered in turquoise and purple enamels.



Period

  • 1830 - 1920



Size

  • Height cm. 8.6
  • Mouth cm. 0.5
  • Lip cm. 0.9



Stopper

  • Jadeite



Provenance

  • Collection of Dr. Joseph Hendry
  • Robert Kleiner



Exhibited

  • Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011



Published

  • "A selection of Chinese Snuff Bottles", Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd, London 2009, no. 62 page 16



Comparison

  • "A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottle - The Mary and George Bloch Collection" - Moss, Graham and Tsang - Vol 6 - No. 1438
  • "Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Albemarle Collection" - Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd - Part I - No. 72
  • "Chinese snuff bottle: 5 - A magazine for the collector and student of Chinese snuff bottle" - Hugh Moss - Fig. no. 97 pag. 60

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