Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J&J Collection, Part V
17 September 2008
Christie’s fifth installment of Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from The J&J Collection will include 88 highly anticipated snuff bottles, many produced at the Imperial Palace workshops during the Qianlong period. With superb examples of enameled glass and metal, as well as finely carved jade, agate and lacquer, these snuff bottles exhibit the breadth and depth of Chinese craftsmanship and artistic talent.
Sale 2026, Lot 87
A fine and very rare famille rose enameled
double-gourd-shaped glass snuff bottle
Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing,
Qianlong four-character mark in blue enamel
and of the period, 1736-1780
1 27/32 in. (4.68 cm.) high
Estimate: $350,000-400,000
Jen Lyn Low, Specialist, Chinese Works of Art, London
A fine and very rare famille rose enameled
double-gourd-shaped glass snuff bottle
Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing,
Qianlong four-character mark in blue enamel
and of the period, 1736-1780
1 27/32 in. (4.68 cm.) high
Estimate: $350,000-400,000
Jen Lyn Low, Specialist, Chinese Works of Art, London
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