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A BLUE OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF A RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF
BOTTLE BOTTLE
Palace Workshops, Beijing, Qianlong wheel- Attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing,
cut four-character mark and of the period Qianlong wheel-cut four-character mark and
Of baluster form, carved through the blue of the period
layer to the opaque milky-white ground with Of flattened rounded form raised on an oval
a continuous scene of a lotus pond and a foot, the bottle finely carved through the
butterfly resting on a branch growing from opaque red overlay with flowering morning
behind a rock, bronze stopper, box. glory in a garden with a butterfly in flight on
7.5cm (3in) high. (2). both sides, with incised mark reads Qianlong
nian zhi (‘made in the Qianlong period’), gilt-
HKD60,000 - 80,000 bronze stopper, box.
US$7,700 - 10,000 6.8cm (2 5/8in) high. (3).
清乾隆 白套藍玻璃花蝶紋鼻烟壺 HKD80,000 - 120,000
「乾隆年製」刻款 US$10,000 - 15,000

Provenance: 清乾隆 白套紅玻璃花蝶鼻烟壺
Chinese Porcelain Co., New York, mid 1990s 「乾隆年製」刻款

來源： Provenance:
中國瓷器公司，紐約，上世紀九十年代中期 Crane Family, Kingston, Ont, Canada, mid 90s

The present lot belongs to a group of carved 來源：
overlay glass snuff bottles attributed to the
227 Imperial glassworks, Beijing, believed to have Crane家族收藏，加拿大安大略省金斯頓，上
世紀九十年代中期
been produced during the second half of the
Qianlong period. A number of similar bottles The design of red overlay glass depicting
are preserved in the Qing Court Collections insects in flight in garden scenes can be
in both Palace Museums. See a very similar found in snuff bottles made in the Palace
example in the National Palace Museum, glass workshop during the Qianlong period.
illustrated in Snuff Bottle in the Collection of Compare with an example in the Beijing
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, pl.281, Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete
p.216; and another preserved in Beijing, Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
illustrated in Ibid, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 33. Hong Kong, 2003, pl.27; and four similar ones
Similar Qianlong mark and period bottles from in the National Palace Museum, illustrated
The Mary and George Bloch Collection were in Lifting the Spirit and Body: The Art and
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 24 November Culture of Snuff Bottle, Taipei, 2012, pl.II-064
2014, lot 160 and 26 May 2014, lot 1051; to II-067, p.143-144.
another one was sold at Sotheby’s New York,
13 September 2016, lot 226.
扁瓶形，平底，銅鎏金鏨花蓋。乳白色地套紅
色玻璃，壺體兩面雕刻牽牛花生於湖石間，兩
乳白色玻璃圓瓶，瓶身套藍色玻璃，刻荷花、 只蝴蝶飛於其上。底陰刻「乾隆年製」款。
蓮蓬生於湖石間，一蝴蝶停於其上。底有「乾
隆年製」陰刻款。帶銅鎏金雕花蓋。
比較一件清宮舊藏「乾隆年製」款白套紅玻璃
花卉紋鼻烟壺，形制相似，刻有兩只蜜蜂於菊
此類花蝶題材套玻璃鼻烟壺為造辦處玻璃厰
花及海棠花中飛舞，見《故宮博物院藏文物
所製之標準器，在清宮舊藏中頗為多見，參看
珍品全集鼻烟壺》，香港，2003年，圖版27。臺
臺北故宮博物院藏一件清乾隆白套藍玻璃花
北故宮博物院亦有四件白套紅玻璃花蝶題材
蝶鼻煙壺，刻蝴蝶飛於海棠、翠菊上，見《故宮
鼻烟壺可資比較，見《通嚏清揚—鼻烟壺文化
鼻烟壺》，臺北，1991年，圖版281，頁216。另
特展》，臺北，2012，圖版II-064 至 II-067，頁
見一例飾袱繫紋及海棠、竹子等，藏於北京故
143-144。
宮博物院，收錄在《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全
集·鼻烟壺》，北京，2003年，圖版33。相同底款
可比較兩件瑪麗及莊志博舊藏，售於蘇富比
香港，2014年5月26日，拍品編號1051；2014
年11月24日，拍品編號160。再參考紐約蘇富
比，2016年9月13日，拍品編號226。
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