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A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, SEAL OF WU YUCHUAN, 1767-1799
The opaque white glass bottle is enameled on one side with a lady standing before a fabric-
draped chamber clutching her sleeve cuff in her mouth and standing next to a blossoming
peony, the reverse with a long but partially illegible inscription, possibly referring to the scene,
followed by the seals shan gao (‘as high as the moutains’) and Wu Yuchuan. The underside is
marked Da Qing nian zhi (made in Great Qing) in iron red.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4979.

For a similar bottle see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the
Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 1, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 199-202, no.
1093, where the intriguing Palace workshops enameler who used the name Wu Yuchuan is
discussed. Also see lot 577 in this catalogue for an enameled glass snuff bottle by the same
artist.
䍆䕩ㅳ⎉蒗䉃栦䔥հ㎆⥘聖㌉█Ǹ㍀玂䍆ㅳǹ撃妑栦

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