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PROPERTY FROM THE FRANCINE AND BERNARD WALD COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
Lot 265
A FINE IMPERIAL VIVID VIOLET-BLUE OPAQUE WHITE GLASS 'FLORAL' SNUFF BOTTLE Qianlong wheel-cut four-character mark and of the period, 1736-1795
17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
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A FINE IMPERIAL VIVID VIOLET-BLUE OPAQUE WHITE GLASS 'FLORAL' SNUFF BOTTLE
Qianlong wheel-cut four-character mark and of the period, 1736-1795
Of flattened rounded shape, delicately carved through a vivid violet-blue overlay with lily and aster sprays issuing from rockwork below a descending butterfly on one side, and with leafy peonies rising from rockwork on the other, the blue overlay forming a thin band at the neck rim and a slightly spreading foot below, the flat oval base with a wheel-cut mark.
1 3/4in (4.5cm) high, stopper
Of flattened rounded shape, delicately carved through a vivid violet-blue overlay with lily and aster sprays issuing from rockwork below a descending butterfly on one side, and with leafy peonies rising from rockwork on the other, the blue overlay forming a thin band at the neck rim and a slightly spreading foot below, the flat oval base with a wheel-cut mark.
1 3/4in (4.5cm) high, stopper
Footnotes
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，加利福尼亞州
或曾爲Ann Meselson收藏
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 916, the first, another Qianlong-marked examples from the same imperial group but of more slender proportions, and the second, no. 916 for an un-marked Imperial glassworks example with a similar disposition of the flora also using a vivid sapphire or violet-blue overlay. Similarly, it is of a much higher quality than the group standard. The design elegantly composed, and the surface finish is with a high polish. See also ibid, p.510-511, for a discussion of the hierarchy of the marks.
For a red overlay bottle of identical shape with begonia and aster decoration, from the Qing Court Collection, see Snuff Bottles, The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 23, no. 27.
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 with decoration that includes asters, see Bonhams New York, The Margaret Polak Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, 24 March 2010, lot 123.