THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A CANTON ENAMEL 'RIBBON-TIED' VASE SNUFF BOTTLE

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A CANTON ENAMEL 'RIBBON-TIED' VASE SNUFF BOTTLE
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD

Of baluster shape, modeled as a vase with a pink-ground, blue-edged ribbon tied around the shoulder, the ribbon with floral decoration on a cell ground, the vase with lemon-yellow ground painted with composite floral scrolling, restored, stopper

拍品專文

For a Yongzheng black-ground gourd-shaped example see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, June 7, 1990, lot 295; and for another, with lappet-cell ground, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue no. 22, p. 87.

For a Qianlong-marked example of more rounded shape see Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, New York, October 3, 1980, lot 173, and Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 10, no. 9