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170 Y Ф
A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL FAMILLE ROSE SNUFF BOTTLE
AND STOPPER
Kangxi
The bottle of flattened peach form made of two joint halves, each side
finely with a contorting dragon, their sinuous body depicted as feathery
rococo curling foliage on a yellow ground, below a waisted neck and a
flaring mouth encircled by lotus petals, the domed stopper decorated
with a blossoming lotus and fitted with an ivory spoon, fitted box.
5.3cm (2 1/8in) high (3 ).

£15,000 - 20,000 CNY150,000 - 190,000
HK$180,000 - 240,000

清康熙 銅胎畫琺瑯盤龍紋鼻煙壺

The rich colour palette and delicacy of the design employed to
decorate this exquisite bottle would seem to attest to the high
pupularity achieved by painted enamel wares in China during the reign
of the Kangxi emperor. The introduction of European painted enamel
wares into the Qing court by the Jesuit missionaries inspired the
Kangxi emperor to open enamelling workshops inside the Forbidden
City, which experimented the new enamelling techniques on materials
such as porcelain and copper.

A very similar copper enamel bottle, Kangxi, was included in the
exhibition, The Kangxi Emperor: Treasures from the Forbidden City,
held in the Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore in 2009, illustrated in
D.S.K. Low, Enamelled Treasures From The Sanctum of Enlightened
Respect. Kangxi to Qianlong, Journal of the International Chinese Snuff
Bottle Society, 2009, fig.1, p.26.

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