A FAMILLE ROSE-ENAMELLED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

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A FAMILLE ROSE-ENAMELLED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1800

Of octafoil lobed meiping shape, each lobe enamelled with one of the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, suspended by a string of tasselled beads from the shoulder below key-pattern around the neck, the base inscribed Guyuexuan, Ancient Moon Pavillion -stopper

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A similar example is illustrated in Zhongguo Biyanhu Zhenshang, The Appreciation of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1992, p. 102, no. 107 and preface illustration p. 4. A more slender version is illustrated by Moss, Graham and Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J and J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 331, no. 193.

(US$5,000-6,000)

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