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Lot Essay
There is a series of Beijing enamel snuff bottles which can be dated to the last decades of the reign of Qianlong, among which are several of varying shapes decorated with a similar design of pairs of birds, representing marital harmony.
A bottle with the same pattern although of different shape from the Meriem Collection, Part II, was sold in our New York Rooms, 19 March 2008, lot 252.
See the exhibition catalogue, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, p.51, nos.14 and 15; and for a third, see R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p.9, no.8. A fourth bottle in the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle Art Museum, has a Jiaqing reign mark, which reinforces the dating of the group to the late eighteenth century.
A bottle with the same pattern although of different shape from the Meriem Collection, Part II, was sold in our New York Rooms, 19 March 2008, lot 252.
See the exhibition catalogue, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty, p.51, nos.14 and 15; and for a third, see R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p.9, no.8. A fourth bottle in the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle Art Museum, has a Jiaqing reign mark, which reinforces the dating of the group to the late eighteenth century.