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A GUYUEXUAN-TYPE ENAMELED TURQUOISE GLASS SNUFF For a larger and more slender oviform bottle of a turquoise-blue color
BOTTLE and painted in a similar palette of enamels, also bearing an indistinct
Qianlong mark, probably Yangzhou, 1780-1830 iron-red mark in a line to the foot, see Michael C. Hughes, The Chester
Of bulbous spade shape and tapering both in width and height, each Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp.
side painted in small range of colors including pink, purple, blue and 248-249, no. 193. Whilst the decoration of Pekinese dogs differs
yellow with landscape scenes, one with a single figure in a lakeside considerably, the stylistic comparisons can still easily be drawn. The
pavilion with trees and a promontory and a mountain backdrop, the neck decoration on both is also very similar. See also Hugh Moss
other with a variety of trees and hills near a bridge, the waisted neck ‘Mysteries of the Ancient Moon’, ICSBS Journal, Spring 2006, pp.
with floral scrolling, the foot a simple scooped out oval, with an iron- 16-32, where Moss argues quite convincingly for an eighteenth century
red four-character seal mark in a line to the base. production date for many bottles in the group.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
Another with crane decoration on turquoise glass ground from the Mrs.
$800 - 1,200 Elma A. Claar collection was sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York,
12 May 1970, lot 447.
1780-1830年 或為揚州作 仿古月軒藍料畫山水圖鼻煙壺

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