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AN IMPERIAL GUANGZHOU (CANTON) ENAMEL SNUFF Exhibited:
BOTTLE International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
Qianlong four-character mark and of the period New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 30
Delicately painted in continuous scene around the body with pairs of
cranes standing amidst pine and prunus branches, and peony sprays For another example painted with a continuous landscape scene with
on a stippled blue ground, between a band of pink toothed-lappets ducks and moorhens against a similar stippled blue ground, see Snuff
and blue classic-scroll at the neck and a single blue scroll at the foot; Bottles of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, p. 78
stopper. & 135, no. 95. See also another depicting a pair of quails in a garden
1 7/8in (4.6cm) high landscape, again with a blue-stippled ground, Tina Yee-wan Pang
(Ed.), Heavenly Creations, University Museum and Art Gallery, The
$3,000 - 4,000 University of Hong Kong, p. 179, no. 307 from the Christopher Sin
Collection (Fuyun Xuan).
乾隆 御製銅胎畫廣東琺瑯松鶴牡丹圖鼻煙壺 《乾隆年製》款

Provenance:
Alice B. McReynolds
Sotheby’s, Los Angeles, The Alice B. McReynolds Collection, 31
October 1984, lot 81

Literature:
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and
Tokyo, 1976, no. 981

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