A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED BROWN GLASS BOTTLE

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED BROWN GLASS BOTTLE
FAINT IRON-RED QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK TO THE BASE, 1780-1850
Of flattened oviform shape, delicately painted in yellow, green, pink, blue and lilac enamels with various flowering sprays on each side of the body including morning glory, rose and hibiscus, below a stylized floral band at the neck, stopper

Provenance

Albert Pyke Collection, Los Angeles

Lot Essay

For a bottle similarly decorated on brown glass from the Paul Braga Collection see Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 Oct-26 Nov, 1977, Catalogue, fig. 61 and also illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, pl. 963. For others, also bearing Qianlong marks, see Christie's London, The Ko Family Collection, June 12, 1972 (Part II), lot 73 and Christie's London, October 12, 1987, lot 289