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*65                                                                              This exquisite bottle is part of a known group of enamelled glass bottles
                                                                                 bearing the same design of camellia and wintersweet. One almost identical
A VERY RARE AND FINELY ENAMELLED FAMILLE ROSE GLASS                              example is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
SNUFF BOTTLE                                                                     Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 47 - Snuf Bottles, Hong Kong,
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG FOUR-                              2003, p. 4, no. 3.
CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD
(1736-1795)                                                                      來源:1994年5月5日於香港蘇富比拍賣, 拍品第1324
                                                                                 號;子壺齋藏玻璃胎畫琺瑯珍品;亞洲重要私人珍藏
清乾隆 御製料胎畫琺瑯雪中二友圖鼻煙壺
「乾隆年製」楷書款                                                                        出版: 香港2012年秋出版,《The Journal of the Internation-
                                                                                 al Chinese Snuff Bottle Society》,第44冊封面;香港2014
The semi-translucent white glass snuf bottle is fnely decorated to the           年出版,楊江河編《雍容華貴-子壺齋藏玻璃胎畫琺瑯珍
compressed pear shaped body with a continuous design depicting camellia          品》,第46-49頁, 圖版第4號
and wintersweet, below a band of pink foral scroll and a ruyi-lappet border
encircling the neck. The base is enamelled with a further ruyi border, with the  見一件現藏於北京故宮博物館並與此拍品極其相似的鼻
recessed foot inscribed in blue enamel in kaishu with the characters Qianlong    煙壺,香港2003年出版,《故宮博物館藏文物珍藏-鼻煙
nian zhi. The gilt-bronze stopper is chased with a stylised foral design.        壺》,第四頁,圖版3.

2¿ in. (5.5 cm.) high, stopper

£20,000-30,000                  $31,000-46,000
                                €28,000-41,000

PROVENANCE:                                                                            (mark)

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 May 1994, lot 1324.
The K.H. Yeo Collection of Chinese Enamelled Glass Wares.
The collection of an important private Asian collector.

LITERATURE:

The Journal of the International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society, Hong Kong,
Autumn 2012, vol. XLIV (2), front cover.
Yeo. K.H., The Master Enameller, Hong Kong, 2014, pp. 46-49, no. 4.

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