Lot 123
123
A FAMILLE ROSE OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE FAINT GUYUEXUAN IRON-RED MARK ON BASE, 1780-1880

Details
A FAMILLE ROSE OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE FAINT GUYUEXUAN IRON-RED MARK ON BASE, 1780-1880

Of flattened spade shape, painted in bright enamels on one side with two magpies amidst prunus and bamboo rising from blue rockwork, and on the other with two deer and two crane below pine, one crane holding a lingzhi in its beak, divided at the narrower sides by iron-red scrolling and all below a blue cloud collar at the shoulder and yellow and iron-red key-pattern at the neck
2½in. (6.3cm.) high, stopper

Lot Essay

This bottle bears close comparison with a number of other enameled opaque white glass bottles bearing Guyuexuan marks, some with the addition of molded decoration. For a slender baluster example painted with a deer and crane see Christie's, Hong Kong, May 2, 1995, lot 1398. For a molded example with pairs of magpies flying amidst blossoming prunus see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York, 1993, p. 351, no. 204 and another illustrated by Humphrey K. F. Hui and Christopher C. H. Sin, An Imperial Qing Tradition, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 145, no. 178