IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, SEAL OF WU YUCHUAN, 1767-1799

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, SEAL OF WU YUCHUAN, 1767-1799
The opaque white glass bottle is enameled on one side with a lady standing before a fabric-draped chamber clutching her sleeve cuff in her mouth and standing next to a blossoming peony, the reverse with a long but partially illegible inscription, possibly referring to the scene, followed by the seals shan gao ('as high as the moutains') and Wu Yuchuan. The underside is marked Da Qing nian zhi (made in Great Qing) in iron red.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper

Provenance

Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4979.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Brought to you by

Margaret Gristina (葛曼琪) Senior Specialist, VP

asianartny@christies.com +1 212 636 2180

Lot Essay

For a similar bottle see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 1, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 199-202, no. 1093, where the intriguing Palace workshops enameler who used the name Wu Yuchuan is discussed. Also see lot 577 in this catalogue for an enameled glass snuff bottle by the same artist.

More from The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part III

View All