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A GUANGZHOU (CANTON) ENAMEL SNUFF BOTTLE For a group of various Guangzhou European-subject bottles, see Tina
Qianlong four-character mark in blue enamel, possibly late in the Yee-wan Pang (Ed.), Heavenly Creations, University Museum and Art
period Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, p. 181-182, no’s. 310-311 and
Painted in bright enamels in a continuous scene with a European 313, the first from the Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection and the latter from
gentleman and lady seated in a natural garden setting with rocks and the Tuyet Nguyet Collection.
flowers, the sky behind stippled in a bright sky-blue; stopper.
2in (5cm) high For another enamel bottle with a similar European lady in a central
panel and painted with similar foot and neck decorative bands, see
$3,000 - 5,000 Ning Wang, One Man’s Choice...II, Beijing, 2009, p. 73, no. 73.
擬乾隆晚期 銅胎畫廣東琺瑯人物鼻煙壺 《乾隆年製》藍料四字款

Provenance:
Sotheby’s, New York, 15 March 1984, lot 231

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 26

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