Famille-Rose Porcelain Ewer-Form Snuff Bottle with Peonies and Floral Scrolls, Apocryphal Qianlong Mark

Object/Artifact

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The Curio Cabinet Collection

Name/Title

Famille-Rose Porcelain Ewer-Form Snuff Bottle with Peonies and Floral Scrolls, Apocryphal Qianlong Mark

Entry/Object ID

SB3704

Description

Chinese porcelain snuff bottle modeled in miniature ewer form, with an ovoid body, elongated neck, projecting spout and opposing handle. The vessel is decorated in polychrome overglaze enamels with prominent pink peonies and dense scrolling foliage against an ochre-yellow ground, with extensive gilding to the spout, handle, mouth and stopper and a red geometric border encircling the lower body. A removable porcelain stopper with elongated hollow shank closes the mouth. The recessed glazed base bears an underglaze-blue four-character Qianlong nian zhi (乾隆年製) reign mark, considered apocryphal pending further research.

Category

Chinese snuff bottle

Made/Created

Artist

Maker presently unidentified

Time Period

20th Century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Asia

Culture/Tribe

Chinese

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Underglaze-blue four-character 乾隆年製 (Qianlong nian zhi), “Made during the Qianlong reign”, arranged in two columns; assessed as an apocryphal/revival reign mark.

Dimensions

Height

3-1/8 in

Width

2-3/8 in

Diameter

1-3/4 in

Weight

58 g

Accessories

Accessory

Wooden base

Materials

Material

Porcelain

Material Notes

With polychrome overglaze enamels and extensive gilding

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

Purchase