QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Of spade shape, the bottle is painted in bright enamels with a butterfly above mallow and reeds to one side, a small iron-red Guyuexuan seal to the side, and a grasshopper amongst begonia and arrowhead to the other, all below a stylised ruyi head band at the very slightly flaring neck. The base is enamelled with a Guyuexuan mark in iron-red. It has an amethyst stopper.
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) overall height

Provenance

Sold at Christie's London, 16 April 1973, lot 69
Estelle Chapman, London
Larry Taylor
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 May 1995, lot 1409
Robert Hall, London, 1997

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Lot Essay

A similar snuff bottle enamelled with lotus a blossom design and inscribed with a Guyuexuan mark is illustrated in Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1992, p. 92, pl. 27. Also compare with a pair of white glass snuff bottles decorated with grasshopper and butterflies, inscribed with a Guyuexuan as well as a Qianlong four-character mark, sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 85.

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