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拍品專文
Recent scholarship suggests bottles of this distinctive group were produced for the Court from some time shortly after the construction of the Guyue Xuan for the Qianlong Emperor in 1767, although precisely where the different groups were made has yet to be determined. They are usually marked either with a Qianlong reign mark in iron-red seal script or a Guyue Xuan mark. This unusual example is decorated with a rare design of insects, symbolizing fertility and ample progeny.
In 1767, the Jian Yuan was completed in the Changchun Yuan complex (a series of Imperial gardens to the West of Beijing adjoining the Yuanming Yuan, known collectively as the Summer Palace). One of the halls within the Jian Yuan was the Guyue Xuan ('Ancient Moon Pavilion'). The Changchun Yuan was intended as a retirement home for the Qianlong Emperor, although he never took up full-time residence there. The Guyue Xuan was completed in 1767 prompting the Emperor to order a group of wares, mostly enamels on glass, for that particular pavilion. See P. Y. K. Lam, 'Studio marks in Imperial and Court Related Snuff Bottles', in The Imperial Connection. Court Related Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Humphrey K. F. Hui Collection, pp. 33-4. The Court apparently had insufficient enamellers to meet the new demand, prompting the introduction of new enamellers at the Court and the ordering of enameled ware for the Court from distant centers, including probably Yangzhou and the porcelain metropolis of Jingdezhen.
The red on yellow neck band is echoed on several known marked Imperial wares from the same period. See, for example, Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, nos. 192 and 196, both signed by Wu Yuchuan, one of the named enamellers of the day. Beaded and other openwork pendant borders can also be found on these marked Imperial wares; see, for example, no. 197.
In 1767, the Jian Yuan was completed in the Changchun Yuan complex (a series of Imperial gardens to the West of Beijing adjoining the Yuanming Yuan, known collectively as the Summer Palace). One of the halls within the Jian Yuan was the Guyue Xuan ('Ancient Moon Pavilion'). The Changchun Yuan was intended as a retirement home for the Qianlong Emperor, although he never took up full-time residence there. The Guyue Xuan was completed in 1767 prompting the Emperor to order a group of wares, mostly enamels on glass, for that particular pavilion. See P. Y. K. Lam, 'Studio marks in Imperial and Court Related Snuff Bottles', in The Imperial Connection. Court Related Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Humphrey K. F. Hui Collection, pp. 33-4. The Court apparently had insufficient enamellers to meet the new demand, prompting the introduction of new enamellers at the Court and the ordering of enameled ware for the Court from distant centers, including probably Yangzhou and the porcelain metropolis of Jingdezhen.
The red on yellow neck band is echoed on several known marked Imperial wares from the same period. See, for example, Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, nos. 192 and 196, both signed by Wu Yuchuan, one of the named enamellers of the day. Beaded and other openwork pendant borders can also be found on these marked Imperial wares; see, for example, no. 197.