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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTION
LOTS 8020-8021
8020
A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMEL ON GILT-COPPER ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ SNUFF BOTTLE
Imperial, Guangzhou, Qianlong four-character mark and of the period, 1750-1795
Of small ovoid form with a waisted neck, exposed gilt copper mouth and foot rims, painted
between bands of foliate scrolls, depicting a continuous scene of a European lady in a long
flowing skirt seated next to rocks in the shade of a large tree with a young boy standing beside
her watching three sheep being herded by another boy, the foreground grassland stretching
into distance with an idyllic landscape, the raised, white enameled foot with the four-character
mark in blue regular script; gilt-metal stopper en suite.
1 13/16in (4.6cm) high
$15,000 - 25,000

1750-1795年 御製 廣州 乾隆四字款 銅胎畫琺瑯西洋人物圖鼻煙壺

The painted figures on the bottle present similarities on many details, including the hair style,
clothing fashion, the shades applied on the faces, and the treatment of the figure’s eyes, to an
enameled copper snuff bottle formerly in Lilla S. Perry’s Collection, published and illustrated in
The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, Bob C. Stevens, New York, pp.264-267, no. 992.

Compare also another example with European women and three sheep, illustrated by Moss,
Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, New York, Volume I, p. 277, no. 171.

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