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A FAMILLE-ROSE MOLDED AND OPENWORK
‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ SNUFF BOTTLE
MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING
of ovoid shape formed in a double layer with a solid-walled 67
interior bottle enclosed within an exterior bottle modeled A PAINTED ENAMEL ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’
with a writhing iron-red dragon on one side and a soaring workshop. Several snuff bottles in this group that also have
polychrome phoenix on the opposite side, the surrounding SNUFF BOTTLE a stippled pattern on the narrow sides include a bottle sold
in these rooms, 22nd March 2000, lot 220; another sold in
white and polychrome cloud swirls pierced in openwork, all MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG these rooms, 24th June 2020, lot 959; and one from the
between molded iron-red ruyi borders above and below, an
iron-red keyfret band at the neck, and tiny raised bosses of flattened flask form with a flat rim and a slightly convex Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection sold in
encircling the foot and uppermost band of the neck, the base, one of the broad sides painted with a woman in a rose- our Hong Kong rooms, 4th June 2021, lot 1012. Others snuff
colored dress sitting on a stone wall looking at a dragonfly
bottles of this type have diaper pattern and puce-enameled
rim gilt, the neck with a four-character mark in iron red, hovering between her and a nearby boy dressed in a blue ‘landscape’ cartouches on the narrow sides, including a
matching molded stopper (2)
Height 2⅞ in., 7.3 cm tunic, the boy’s eyes fixed on the insect and his hands lifted snuff bottle sold in these rooms, 2nd December 1985, lot
to capture it, the figures surrounded by a verdant landscape 146. Canton enamel bottles of this type, but without the
with a European castle and snow-capped purple mountains mountains, include one sold at Christie’s New York, 1st-2nd
PROVENANCE
in the background, the opposite side with a woman in a December 1994, lot 528; another sold at Christie’s Hong
Collection of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) and Maud celadon dress seated on a stone wall extending a pink Kong, 28th April 1996, lot 594; one published in Geng
Wyeth Painter (1885-1971), and thence by descent.
blossom in her hand to a young girl in pink dress standing Baochang and Zhao Binhua, Zhongguo biyanhu zhenbao
below, the background also with a European building and [Snuff Bottles for Connoisseur’s Collection], Hong Kong,
$ 4,000-6,000
snow-capped purple mountains, each pictorial cartouche 1992, pl. 383; and a similarly painted bottle showing a
surrounded by a blue foliate band, the narrow sides with a mother, child, and gift-bearer on the balcony of a European
清嘉慶 粉彩模印龍鳳紋鼻煙壺 pale yellow ground and stippled dots, the white-enameled castle, in the collection of the National Palace Museum,
《嘉慶年製》款 base painted with a four-character mark in blue, domed gilt- Taipei (coll. no. 故-琺-000873-N000000000).
metal stopper (2)
來源： Height 1⅞ in, 4.8 cm $ 30,000-50,000
Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940)
65 PROVENANCE 清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯西洋人物圖鼻煙壺
及 Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971) Collection of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) and Maud
收藏，此後家族傳承 Wyeth Painter (1885-1971), and thence by descent. 《乾隆年製》款
The present bottle belongs to a group of Qianlong mark 來源：
and period snuff bottles finely painted with vignettes of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) 及 Maud Wyeth
Europeans enjoying each other’s company in distinctly
European settings, likely produced by the same hand or Painter (1885-1971) 伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承

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A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘MAGPIE AND PRUNUS’
SNUFF BOTTLE
MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING
of ovoid form set over a low foot and rising to a straight neck,
painted all around with a prunus tree in bloom, a flock of magpies
perching and flying amidst the branches, the tree bark and birds
executed in grisaille enamels with the new shoots in lime-green
and the blooms picked out in pink and yellow, the base with a
four-character mark in iron red, tourmaline stopper (2)
Height 2⅜ in., 6 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) and Maud
Wyeth Painter (1885-1971), and thence by descent.

$ 4,000-6,000
清嘉慶 粉彩喜上梅稍圖鼻煙壺
《嘉慶年製》款
來源：
Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940)
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及 Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971)
伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承

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