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AN IMPERIAL RED-OVERLAY SEMI-OPAQUE MILKY GLASS
BOTTLE
Wheel-engraved Qianlong four-character mark and of the period, For other examples see Christie’s, London, 8 October 2020, lot 61
Probably Beijing Palace Workshops for a bottle decorated with an egret and lotus but the same color
Of rounded shape below a tapering neck with a wide mouth opening, combination of red on a milky-cream ground and with a wheel-cut
the strawberry-red overlay very delicately carved in layers of differing Qianlong mark; and Bonhams, Hong Kong, 2 December 2021, lot
thickness to enhance the three-dimensionality of the subject of 228, for a floral-decorated example.
two dragons coiling around a shou character on each main face
below a descending bat, a simple red overlay oval foot ring, the
base centered by the engraved imperial mark, 1 7/8in (4.8cm) high,
stopper box
$8,500 - 9,500
白套紅料福壽鼻烟壺 《乾隆年製》款 或爲北京宮廷製

For comparable examples in the Beijing Palace Museum, see
Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin daxi (Snuff Bottles, The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum), Hong
Kong, 2003, pp.23-25, no’s. 27 and 33, and pp.30-31, no’s. 37-38.
Four related floral-decorated bottles in the National Palace Museum,
are illustrated in Lifting the Spirit and Body: The Art and Culture of
Snuff Bottle, Taipei, 2012, pl.II-064 to II-067, p.143-144.

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