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• 玻璃畫琺瑯瓜形鼻煙壺
  北京宮廷造辦處，1716-1750
  
  Provenance來源:
  Property of a private European collector
  
  This extremely rare enamelled snuff bottle appears to be a unique creation of the Palace Workshops, Beijing. There is, however, a related melon-shaped snuff bottle in the Russell Mullin collection, enamelled on copper with flowers and melon vines against a yellow ground, illustrated by Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles: 5 , Feltham, 1969, pg. 27, fig. 12.
  
  See also a white glass bottle from the Meriem collection, sold at Christie's New York, 19 September, 2007, lot 613. Also a unique creation, it is enamelled in the form of a pink and pale-green lotus bud, with a beetle and two ladybirds depicted clambering over it, differing from the current bottle in that it is inscribed with a blue-enamelled four-character mark on the base, placing it in the second half of the Qianlong era (1760-95).

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Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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