A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED AND ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE, 1820-1870 China, Jingdezhen kilns. The bottle is crisply and deeply molded overall and painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with a continuous palace garden scene depicting court ladies with children playing and frolicking, enclosed by a blue fence, and surrounded by banana trees, and craggy rocks. The neck with a blue band above a rose key-fret border, the rim around the mouth painted in gilt.

Provenance: From a private collection in Hessen, Germany, assembled before 2007, and thence by descent to the last owner.
Condition: Very good condition with minor old wear and manufacturing flaws, a minuscule chip to the foot.

Stopper: Fingerprint agate
Weight: 68.7 g
Dimensions: Height including stopper 85 mm. Diameter neck 18 mm and mouth 8 mm

The recessed base with an apocryphal iron-red four-character seal mark Qianlong nianzhi.

The molding of porcelain was standard practice at Jingdezhen long before the snuff-bottle period. Molding allows for easy mass production and is well suited to the manufacture of porcelain. Instead of forming or decorating each individual piece, a carver uses a single mold, from which many identical pieces can be turned out. The use of complex molds for snuff bottles, which included extensive relief decoration and dictated the entire form of the bottle, flourished as an art from the late Qianlong period well into the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie's New York, 12 September 2018, lot 679
Price: USD 1,500 or approx. EUR 1,700 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: An enameled and molded porcelain snuff bottle, Jingdezhen kilns, 1820-1870
Expert remark: Compare the similar decoration, the enamels, as well as the similar size (76 mm)



1820-1870年粉彩堆塑人物鼻烟壺
中國，景德鎮。口外撇，束頸，圈足。瓶身彩繪琺瑯並描金表現了花園場景，貴族女士帶著孩子嬉戲，四周藍色柵欄，芭蕉樹和假山。頸部回紋，壺口描金。

來源：德國黑森州私人收藏，購於2007年年前，保存至今。
品相：品相極好，有輕微的磨損和製造瑕疵，足部小磕損。

壺蓋：瑪瑙
重量：68.7 克
尺寸：高 （含蓋）85 毫米，頸部直徑18 毫米及瓶口直徑8 毫米

圈足内四字偽款“乾隆年製”。

早在鼻烟壺時代之前，瓷器堆塑就已在景德鎮製作。模壓容易，適合大規模生產，因此可用於瓷器的製造。雕刻師無需製作或裝飾每一件作品，而是使用一個模具，從中可以製作出許多相同的作品。鼻烟壺的複雜模具的使用，包括大量的浮雕裝飾，決定了整個鼻烟壺的形狀。從乾隆晚期一直到嘉慶和道光年間，鼻烟壺堆塑達到發展高潮。

拍賣結果比較：
形制：非常相近
拍賣：紐約佳士得，2018年9月12日，lot 679
價格：USD 1,500（相當於今日EUR 1,700）
描述：1820-1870年景德鎮堆塑鼻烟壺
專家評論：比較相似的裝飾、上色，以及尺寸(76 毫米)。