A FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

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A FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
FAINT GUYUEXUAN MARK IN IRON-RED ON THE BASE, 1750-1830

Of slender baluster shape, meiping, delicately painted in slightly matt enamels in a continuous scene around the body with a deer and a crane in a garden setting with rockwork, chrysanthemum and a gnarled pine, a bat hovering above, the shoulder with a blue ruyi-head collar below an iron red key-pattern band on a yellow ground around the slightly waisted neck with wide mouth (minute mouth and foot nibble)--2 3/8in. (6cm.) high, stopper

Lot Essay

For an example of identical shape and painted with a blue ruyi-head collar, but with cats replacing the deer and crane, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1970, Catalogue, p. 67, pl. 271. Another, painted with prunus and butterflies, is illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, sold Boston, October 10, 1991, lot 79 and formerly in the Marian Mayer Collection. For a less competently painted bottle of similar type see Christie's, London, October 12, 1987, lot 272

For a yellow glass bottle with Qianlong mark, painted with famille rose lotus but of near identical shape, see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collections, London, 1992, pp. 138-139, pl. 2

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