PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTIONA FINE AND RARE CLEAR GLASS ENAMELLED SNUFF BOTTLE
Imperial, Beijing Palace Workshops, Guyue Xuan mark, 1770-1800Of slender oval form tapering to a narrow neck, flat mouth rim and small mouth, the clear glass bottle finely enameled in the famille-rose palette with a continuous landscape of a flowering plum trees issuing from behind a rocky outcropping together with bamboo and daisies, a butterfly in flight above, the magnificent slender branches of plum blossoms wrapping the surface of the bottle in brilliant color, the Guyue xuan mark visible under the straight foot. 2 3/4in (6.8cm) high, stopper
1770-1800 透明料胎畫琺瑯梅花紋鼻煙壺一件北京宮廷造辦處御製「古月軒」款Provenance: The Monimar CollectionThe Ann Meselson CollectionProperty from an Important Private Collection, acquired in 2004Published:Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, the Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Clare Lawrence, Zhenliu Xuan Publishing Company, London, 1996, p.15, pl.81Illustrated: Journal, The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Summer 1994, front cover來源:Monimar 舊藏Ann Meselson 舊藏重要私人典藏,2004 年入藏出版:Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom, the Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Clare Lawrence, 倫敦珍琉軒出版社,1996 年,頁 15,圖版81圖示:《國際中國鼻煙壺協會期刊》,1994 年夏季刊,封面This elegant bottle is part of a small group of enameled clear-glass bottles executed by the Imperial Palace Workshops during the later years of the Emperor Qianlong (1735-1795). Many of these bottles bear the Guyue Xuan mark and are discussed by Hugh Moss in his June 1978 article in The Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, vol. X, no. 2, p. 14.See a closely related Imperial clear glass snuff bottle, unmarked, attributed to the Palace Workshops and dated 1768–1775, ex. Hugh Moss Collection, sold in our New York rooms, 22 March 2011, lot 80. Compare an Imperial enameled glass 'prunus, bamboo and rose' snuff bottle, Guyue Xuan mark, decorated with prunus bamboo and a butterfly, attributed to the Palace Workshops and the Qianlong period, sold at Sotheby's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 304.
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