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A GUYUEXUAN-TYPE ENAMELED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS For a discussion of Guyuexuan bottles, see Michael C. Hughes,
BOTTLE Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Baltimore,
Qianlong four-character seal mark in iron-red, Yangzhou, 1790-1830 2009, pp. 248-249, no. 193 and for a bottle of gourd shape similarly
Of compressed rounded shape, painted in a continuous scene with painted, see Hughes, ibid., pp. 250-251, no. 194.
butterflies above chrysanthemums and begonia to one side and a
grasshopper on leafy foliage and flowers on the other; stopper. For another depicting lotus and frogs, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham,
1 15/16in (4.9cm) high and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary
and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6 Part 1, Arts of the Fire, pp. 191-
$3,000 - 5,000 192, no. 1090. It is attributed to the Imperial palace workshops in
Beijing and carries a Guyuexuan three-character mark rather than the
1790-1830 揚州工 古月軒風格涅白料胎畫琺瑯花卉鼻煙壺 《乾隆年 Qianlong mark of our example.
製》礬紅篆書款

Provenance:
A Private U.S. Collection
Michael C.Hughes LLC, 10 April 2013

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 143

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