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A RARE AND SUPERB PAINTED ENAMEL 清乾隆 御製銅胎畫琺瑯開光西洋仕女圖鼻煙壺
‘EUROPEAN LADIES’ SNUFF BOTTLE AND A 藍料「乾隆年製」楷書款、
PAINTED ENAMEL ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF DISH 清乾隆 御製銅胎畫琺瑯山水圖花卉紋鼻煙碟
BOTTLE: IMPERIAL, PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, QIANLONG
BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 藍料「乾隆年製」篆書款
(1736-1795)
DISH: IMPERIAL, BEIJING PALACE WORKSHOPS, QIANLONG BLUE 來源
ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 壺：英國私人珍藏，倫敦邦瀚斯，2014年5月14日，拍品466
(1736-1795) 號
The bottle is delicately painted in famille rose enamels on
copper, on each main side with a cartouche depicting two Robert Hall，倫敦，2014年7月
European ladies, the narrow sides with panels enclosing ruby-
enamelled landscapes, all against a yellow diaper ground. The 出版
dish is decorated in ruby enamels with an idyllic river landscape, 壺：莫士撝、薩進德，《水松石山房鼻煙壺珍藏：第一部 宮
the underside with five multi-coloured flowerheads against a 廷風趣、技藝在鼻煙壺美術中所起的作用》，香港，2017
white ground. 年，編號21.3.1285
Bottle: 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, gilt-bronze stopper; 根據清宮造辦處活計檔記錄，乾隆三年（1738）皇帝下旨：「畫紅山
Dish: 1√ in. (4.7 cm.) diam., box (2) 水琺瑯鼻煙壺燒得甚好，照樣多燒造幾件」，可見本鼻煙壺及煙碟上繪
HK$450,000-600,000 US$59,000-77,000 的胭脂紅琺瑯山水圖深得乾隆皇帝歡心，並親自要求宮廷作坊多製作幾
件。國立故宮博物院藏一件乾隆款銅胎畫琺瑯鼻煙壺，開光內繪西洋母
PROVENANCE 子圖，側面開光繪胭脂紅風景圖，題材與本拍品相近，可資比較，見侯
Bottle: An English private collection, sold at Bonhams London, 怡利著，《通嚏輕揚：鼻煙壺文化特展》，台北，2012 年，圖 II-011。
15 May 2014, lot 466
Robert Hall, London, July 2014
LITERATURE
Bottle: Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water Pine and
Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part One. Imperial
Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts, Hong Kong, 2017, no.
21.3.1285
This delicately enamelled bottle is decorated on each side with two
European ladies instead of the usual combination of a mother and
boy typically seen on examples from the early Qianlong period. This
suggests the bottle was likely to be made in the Palace enamel
workshops during the latter part of the Qianlong period, during a
time when Jesuit influence rapidly diminished at court, in conjunction
with a decline in use of the Madonna-and-Child image. However this
bottle, with its superb enameling, is undoubtedly one of the finest
known examples made during this period, and is very rare with the
ruby landscape panels on the narrow sides, features which are more
commonly found on enamelled bottles from the earlier Qianlong reign,
such as an example painted with a European mother and boy on
both sides and two ruby landscape panels on the narrow sides, in the
National Palace Museum, illustrated in Hou Yi-Li, Lifting the Spirit and
Body: The Art and Culture of Snuff Bottles, Taipei, 2012, no. II-011.
According to the archival records of the Imperial Household department,
in Qianlong third year (1738), the Emperor gave praise to ‘snuff bottles
enamelled with red landscapes’ and ordered more similar bottle to be
made. Enamelled red landscape is undoubtedly a favoured subject for
the Emperor. It is therefore highly likely that the current snuff dish was
made by the palace workshops shortly following the Emperor’s request
for bottles of similar design.

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