CHINE, MARQUE GUYUE XUAN, ATTRIBUE A L'ECOLE DE YANGZHOU, FIN DU XVIIIEME SIECLE

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TABATIERE EN VERRE BLANC A DECOR EN EMAUX DE LA FAMILLE ROSE
CHINE, MARQUE GUYUE XUAN, ATTRIBUE A L'ECOLE DE YANGZHOU, FIN DU XVIIIEME SIECLE
De forme balustre, ornée sur les deux faces d'oiseaux sur des branchages feuillagés et fleuris, marque à trois caractères Guyue Xuan à la base ; bouchon en agate
Hauteur avec le bouchon: 6,8 cm. (2 11/16 in.)

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A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
CHINA, GUYUE XUAN MARK, ATTRIBUTED TO THE YANGZHOU SCHOOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

It has been suggested by Hugh M. Moss in his recent study, Mysteries of The Ancient Moon, January 2006, pp.31 and 32, that this distinctive group of enamels was produced for the Court at some distant facility, Yangzhou being the most likely place, some time shortly after the construction of the Guyue Xuan for the Qianlong Emperor in 1767. They are usually marked either with a pale Qianlong reign mark or a Guyue Xuan mark in iron-red, such as the present example. For another example of a Yangzhou enamelled glass bottle in the collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum, from the Gulland Bequest of 1907, see H. White, Snuff Bottles from China, London, 1992, pl. 60, no. 2.

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