Name: AN ENAMELLED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Brand: IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS,BEIJING, QING DYNASTY, 1735-1795
Price: 100000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

The snuff bottle is of an ovoid form with a slightly recessed convex foot. The side is painted with a continuous garden scene of a butterfly above a floral garden with various plants including chrysanthemums and asters, and inscribed in black enamel with a poem, followed by the signature Nantian. The shoulder is decorated with a band of formalized lingzhi beneath a neckband in iron-red on yellow of swastika design. The foot is inscribed with Qianlong four-character mark in blue enamel.
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, stopper

Robert Kleiner, 1994
FranzArt Collection

FranzArt, Chinese Art from the Hedda and Lutz Franz Collection, Volume Four - Fire, Hong Kong, 2014, pp. 136, 148

The Tsui Museum of Art, A Congregation of Snuff Bottle Connoisseurs: An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1997, cat. no. 81

Please note the dating of the present lot is: IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS,BEIJING, QING DYNASTY, 1735-1795
請注意，本拍品年代為：清1735-1795年
请注意，本拍品年代为：清1735-1795年

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The iron-red on yellow neck border on the current snuff bottle is a distinctive style and palette that can be found on Yongzheng and early Qianlong period snuff bottles. Compare to a enamel on clear glass snuff bottle in the Marakovic Collection, illustrated in Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Spring 2004, back cover. The relatively large reign mark written in regular script is also a characteristic of the early Qianlong examples.

The bottle inscribed with a poem that is by the bird-and-flower painter Yun Shouping (1633-1690). The same poem can be found on a painting album, Chrysanthemum, by Yun Shouping in the National Palace Museum Collection, accession number gu-hua-003199-00003.

The poem reads:
Purple gorgeousness and golden flowers: their colours are doubled in charm.
Hibiscus joins them in the chilly autumn mists
By the hedge I suddenly espy the colours of South Mountain:
It is just the season for Chaisang to grasp the chrysanthemums.