TWO UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND IRON-RED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES


19th centuryBoth of cylindrical form, the first featuring a broad everted lip, decorated with a boy and a dragon on a ground of stylized fu and shou characters, the six-character Guangxu mark in underglaze blue, and of the period; the second bottle with a wide mouth and a thin rounded lip, the body with a pattern in underglaze blue punctuated by a series of lotus flowers.3 1/8in (8cm) height of taller
|Provenancedragon bottle: Eldred's Auction, Massachusetts, 2002lotus bottle: acquired in Florida, 1992十九世紀 青花礬紅鼻煙壺兩件