FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN SNUFFBOX Daoguang mark... Lot 5

FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN SNUFFBOX Daoguang mark and period (1820-1850) A FINE FAMILLE ROSE AND GILT-DECORATED 'BUTTERFLIES' SNUFF BOTTLE Daoguang iron-red seal mark and of the period Of flattened rectangular shape with rounded shoulders set with animal-mask handles, finely enamelled on each side with multi-coloured butterflies fluttering on a white ground, stopper. 6.3cm (2 1/2in) high (2). Footnotes: 清道光 粉彩描金蝴蝶紋鋪首鼻煙壺 礬紅「道光年製」篆書款 Provenance: J.M.Wakefield, Esq. Sotheby's London, 18 March 1980, lot 43 Eskenazi Ltd, London A European private collection 來源： J.M. Wakefield, Esq.舊藏 倫敦蘇富比，1980年3月18日，編號43 倫敦 Eskenazi Ltd. 歐洲私人收藏 See a similar bottle, illustrated in Robert Kleiner, The Nordic Butterfly Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles Part II, Hong Kong, 2010, cat.no.351. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com