A MOLDED PORCELAIN 'LADIES AND CHILDREN' SNUFF BOTTLE 1796-1820PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF KIM GREENA MOLDED PORCELAIN 'LADIES AND CHILDREN' SNUFF BOTTLE1796-1820Of bulbous, tapering shield-shape with a cylindrical neck and a slightly everted lip, standing on a thin oval footrim, the bottle molded and partially covered in a transparent glaze on the lip, the base, and the women's robes, the remainder left in the biscuit, decorated with an outdoor scene of women and children in a walled garden, flanked by an overhanging banana tree, the neck incised with a leiwen border, the details of the figures finely rendered. 2 3/4in (7.2cm) high1796-1820 模製瓷胎庭院閑情人物鼻煙壺一件Provenance:Eldred's Auction House, August 26, 2005, lot 41 Kim Green collection no. 91For a similar bottle, molded with a continuous scene of the Eighteen Luohan, see Michael C. Hughes, The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, 2002, p. 204, no. 272.