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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1750-1820
The bottle is decorated on each side with a central shou roundel fanked by stylized pairs
of blue chi-dragons and fenghuang on a gilt ground, all within a foliate panel surrounded
by turquoise vines and foral motifs against a gilt ground.

2¿ in. (5.4 cm.) high, dyed quartz stopper
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 2004.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4104.

This bottle belongs to a group of cloisonné enamel bottles, some with only partial inlay
of enamels, of similar design, and many diferent color combinations, which are now
considered to be the imperial output of the Palace workshops from the mid to late
eighteenth century. Comparable cloisonné enamel bottles include one illustrated by H.
Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989,
no. 364; one illustrated by P. Friedman, Chinese Snuf Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing
Friedman Collection, Denver, 1990, p. 128, no. 104; and another by H. Moss, Snuf Bottles
of China, London, 1971, no. 272.

Another bottle from this same group, with a diferent combination of enamel colors
in The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part I, was sold at Christie’s New York,
16 September 2015, lot 215.
1750-1820年 御製掐絲琺瑯龍鳳團壽紋鼻煙壺

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