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1736-1795 乾隆 御製白地套藍料刻花卉蝴蝶鼻煙壺一件
《乾隆年製》陰刻楷書款
Provenance:
Possibly Georgia Roode Collection, LA,
Possibly Ann Meselson Collection
來源:
或曾爲Georgia Roode收藏,加利福尼亞
或曾爲Ann Meselson收藏
For similar pink overlay bottles with Qianlong four-character seal marks and one blue overlay example in the Palace Museum, Taipei, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, pp. 216-219, nos. 280-291 and the blue example no. 281.
Another violet-blue overlay bottle of small ovoid form with a Qianlong four-character wheel-cut mark, from the same Imperial group and decorated with asters, lingzhi and bamboo was sold at Bonhams New York, The Margaret Polak Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, 24 March 2010, lot 123.
See Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 5, Part 2, pp. 506-511, no's 913 and 914 for other Qianlong-marked examples from the same imperial group, and no. 916 for an un-marked example with a similar disposition of the flora and also using a sapphire-blue overlay.