Lot 359
359
PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
A FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

Details
A FAMILLE ROSE-DECORATED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
IRON-RED GUYUEXUAN MARK ON BASE, 1780-1850

Finely painted in bright enamels on one side with bamboo and a prunus tree, its branches continuing onto the reverse above peony and rockwork, the neck with a collar of ruyi lappets pendent from a yellow band penciled in iron-red with foliate scroll, stopper
Provenance
R. Bensabott Collection, Minneapolis, 1947

Lot Essay

For a clear glass bottle with a guyuexuan mark painted with a similar design see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, col.pl.16
For another bottle of similar type see Snuff Bottles of the Ching Dynasty, Catalogue, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, p.56, pl.28