IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A VERY RARE AND FINELY ENAMELLED FAMILLE ROSE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The semi-translucent white glass snuff bottle is finely decorated to the compressed pear shaped body with a continuous design depicting camellia and wintersweet, below a band of pink floral scroll and a ruyi-lappet border encircling the neck. The base is enamelled with a further ruyi border, with the recessed foot inscribed in blue enamel in kaishu with the characters Qianlong nian zhi. The gilt-bronze stopper is chased with a stylised floral design.
2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high, stopper

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 May 1994, lot 1324.
The K.H. Yeo Collection of Chinese Enamelled Glass Wares.
The collection of an important private Asian collector.

Literature

The Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Hong Kong, Autumn 2012, vol. XLIV (2), front cover.
Yeo. K.H., The Master Enameller, Hong Kong, 2014, pp. 46-49, no. 4.

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Lot Essay

This exquisite bottle is part of a known group of enamelled glass bottles bearing the same design of camellia and wintersweet. One almost identical example is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 47 - Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 4, no. 3.

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