A White-Glazed Reticulated 'Buddhist Lions' Snuff Bottle And A Famille Rose Moulded 'Luohan' Snuff Bottle The 'luohan' bottle with a Qianlong six-character mark

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A WHITE-GLAZED RETICULATED 'BUDDHIST LIONS' SNUFF BOTTLE AND A FAMILLE ROSE MOULDED 'LUOHAN' SNUFF BOTTLE The 'luohan' bottle with a Qianlong six-character mark, 1780-1850 The white-glazed bottle with a flattened spade-shaped body resting on an oval foot with concave base and rising to a waisted neck, the exterior crisply moulded and reticulated to depict grinning Buddhist lions playfully chasing ribboned brocade balls between two bands of ruyi -heads, a band of leiwen around the neck, the whole covered with a creamy ivory-white glaze, stopper; the 'luohan' bottle of compressed globular form finely moulded in relief and painted with luohan riding lions and an elephant and presenting offerings in a continuous garden landscape against a turquoise ground, the rim gilt. The larger: 7.5cm (3in) high with stopper. (4). Footnotes: 一七八零至一八五零年 白釉鏤雕佛獅紋鼻烟壺及粉彩模印羅漢紋鼻烟壺 「大清乾隆年製」款 Provenance: The Dane collection, USA Robert Hall, London A private collection, Edinburgh, acquired from the above 21st August 2008 (the figurative bottle) Robert Hall, London A private collection, Edinburgh, acquired from the above in July 2004 (the lions bottle) Exhibited, Published and Illustrated: Robert Hall, The Boston Snuff Party, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIII , London, 2008, no.71 (the lions bottle) The Heriot Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Volume II , Edinburgh, 2020, p.43, fig.31 (the figurative bottle) and p.49, fig.37 (the lions bottle) (Published and Illustrated)