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AN ENAMELED GLASS ‘LOTUS’ SNUFF BOTTLE Provenance:
Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Sotheby’s, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, 17 March
Of flattened globular form surmounted by a gently tapered neck with 1997, lot 3
a flat lip and supported on a flat foot, the crizzled light blue glass
enameled on one side with blossoming lotus plants and reeds, the 來源：
other side inscribed in white enamel with two lines of poetic verse and 重要中國瓷器及工藝品，紐約蘇富比，1997年3月17日，拍賣編號3
painted with three seals reading zhonghe, Shangao and Wu Yuchuan.
2 1/8in (5.3cm) high This bottle is related to a group of bottles signed by Wu Yuchuan and
discussed in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang , The Art of
$4,000 - 6,000 the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, Vol. 2, New York, 1993,
no. 196.
清乾隆 透明藍料畫琺瑯蓮紋鼻煙壺
A related blue glass bottle, similarly enameled but inscribed with
a cyclical gengyin date, and of slightly different form, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 23 March 1995, lot 177; and another of dark blue
glass with a cyclical wuzi date and Guyue Xuan marks was sold at
Christie’s New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1609.

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