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PROPERTY FROM THE NELSON KLINE COLLECTION,   PROPERTY FROM THE NELSON KLINE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
 NEW YORK  1051
 1050     A PAINTED ENAMEL SHELL-FORM SNUFF BOX
 A PAINTED ENAMEL `EUROPEAN-  AND A LADLE
 SUBJECT’ CUP AND A SNUFF BOX AND   QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
 COVER
 QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)  The snuff box is naturalistically formed in the shape of a
          lobed convex shell. The top of the flat cover is decorated with
 The tall cup is brilliantly enameled on the exterior   sprays of flowers, a fish, and a crab, the interior with flowers
 with a continuous scene of European gentlemen   and finger citrons. The ridged and domed box is enameled
 on horseback riding towards a robed lady standing   on the exterior with alternating curvilinear bands of yellow
 in a loggia, with a cliffside castle and ships in   and pink simulating the texture of the shell and is fitted with
 the distant background, the rim and foot with   gilt metal mounts. The pointed, oval ladle is enameled on the
 gilding. The rectangular snuff box is enameled   exterior with a band of pendent grapes and peonies, the gently
 on top of the cover with two European ladies and   upcurved handle with peacock feathers and fitted with a gilt
 a gentleman sitting in a garden, the interior with   terminal in the shape of a peacock head. The interior is painted
 a scene painted in sepia and light blue of figures   with a lively scene of shrimp swimming amidst water grasses.
 along a riverbank. The bombé sides feature similar   Snuff box: 2.7.8 in. (7.3 cm.) wide
 riverscapes in cartouches against a dark blue   1050  Ladle: 4 in. (10 cm.) long  (2)
 ground, the base decorated with a spray of finger
 citrons and lilies, fitted with gilt metal mounts.  $3,000-5,000
 Cup: 2¡ in. (6 cm.) high
 Snuff box: 3 in. (7.5 cm.) wide  (2)  PROVENANCE:
          The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
 $4,000-6,000
          EXHIBITED:
 PROVENANCE:  Ladle: New York, The Chinese Porcelain Company, Chinese
 The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.  Painted Enamels of the 18th Century, 14-21 October 1993.
 EXHIBITED:  LITERATURE:
 Cup: New York, The Chinese Porcelain Company,   Ladle: The Chinese Porcelain Company, Chinese Painted
 Chinese Works of Art and Snuff Bottles, 1-24 June   Enamels of the 18th Century, New York, 1993, p. 41, no. 39.
 1994.
 Snuff box: New York, The Chinese Porcelain   紐約NELSON KLINE珍藏
 Company, Chinese Painted Enamels of the 18th
 Century, 14-21 October 1993.  清乾隆 金屬胎畫琺瑯貝形鼻烟盒及勺
          來源:
 LITERATURE:
 Cup: The Chinese Porcelain Company, Chinese   The Chinese Porcelain Company, 紐約
 Works of Art and Snuff Bottles, New York, 1994, p.   展覽:
 34, no. 27.  勺:The Chinese Porcelain Company:「Chinese Painted
 Snuff box: The Chinese Porcelain Company,   Enamels of the 18th Century」, 1993年10月14-21日
 Chinese Painted Enamels of the 18th Century, New
 York, 1993, p. 67, no. 58.  出版:
          勺:The Chinese Porcelain Company:《Chinese Painted
 紐約NELSON KLINE珍藏  1050 (another view of box)  Enamels of the 18th Century》, 紐約, 1993年, 頁41, 編號39
 清乾隆 金屬胎畫琺瑯西洋人物圖盃及鼻烟盒
 來源:
 The Chinese Porcelain Company, 紐約  PROPERTY FROM THE NELSON KLINE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
 展覽:      1052
 盃:The Chinese Porcelain Company:「Chinese   A SMALL FAMILLE VERTE GREEN-GROUND
 Painted Enamels of the 18th Century」, 1994年  `PHOENIX-TAIL’ VASE
 6月1-24日  18TH-19TH CENTURY
 盒:The Chinese Porcelain Company:「Chinese   The body is decorated with four quatrefoil panels, three with
 Painted Enamels of the 18th Century」, 1993年  officials standing in a landscape and the fourth with a scholar
 10月14-21日  seated in an interior dreaming. The shoulder is decorated with
 出版:      cartouches of a crane flying amidst clouds, below a band of
 盃:The Chinese Porcelain Company:《Chinese   cloud motifs in iron red, the trumpet-shaped neck featuring
 Works of Art and Snuff Bottles》, 紐約, 1994年, 頁  a similar band of panels enclosing officials and cranes, all
 34, 編號27  reserved on an emerald-green ground.
 盒:The Chinese Porcelain Company:《Chinese   14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
 Painted Enamels of the 18th Century》, 紐約,
 1993年, 頁67, 編號58  $6,000-8,000
 1051

          紐約NELSON KLINE珍藏
          清十八/十九世紀 五彩綠地開光人物故事圖鳳尾尊

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