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A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘QUAILS’ SNUFF BOTTLE 清嘉慶 粉彩鵪鶉安居圖鼻煙壺
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING 《嘉慶年製》款
5.7 cm, 2¼ in.
PROVENANCE 來源：
Y.F. Yang, Hong Kong, 3rd May 1971 (HK$3,500). 同豐行，香港，1971年5月3日（HK$3,500）
HK$ 80,000-120,000
US$ 10,200-15,300 此御製鼻煙壺，盈尺之間細繪歲歲安居圖，精巧雅
緻，極為珍罕，原應與兩岸故宮所舊類例成套。台北
This extremely rare Imperial snuff bottle, exquisitely 故宮博物院清宮舊藏中，有一套同式鼻煙壺，仍存原
enamelled on porcelain with a scene of quails amidst millet, 盒，本有十壺，但現只餘七，收錄在張臨生，《故宮
appears to be one of two missing bottles from a set of ten 鼻煙壺》，台北，1991年，頁130及頁113（局部）。
originally in the Qing court collection. Seven of the ten are 北京故宮所存獨壺，圖則可參見《故宫博物院藏文物
now preserved in their original box in the National Palace
Museum, Taiwan. See Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the 珍品全集．鼻煙壺》，香港，2003年，圖版329。
Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, p.
130, and detail, p. 113. One is still in Beijing, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum.
Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 329.
The combination of quail (anchun) and millet (maisui) is also
a rebus for the auspicious four-character sui sui ping an, a
traditional New Year’s greeting which can be translated as
‘May you have peace year after year’. It is a popular subject
matter on traditional Chinese paintings, especially those of
the Song dynasty. Mark

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