A PAINTED ENAMEL OVIFORM SNUFF BOTTLE

Lot 2849
30.05.2023 05:00UTC +00:00
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HKD 300 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 960146
Lot 2849 | A PAINTED ENAMEL OVIFORM SNUFF BOTTLE
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HKD 300 000 – 500 000
A PAINTED ENAMEL OVIFORM SNUFF BOTTLE

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The snuff bottle is decorated with a female figure brushing her hair inside her chamber, with a male figure reclining on a daybed and two other male figures feeding a horse in the garden outside, all under the pink scrolling border around the neck.

2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper





Provenance

Mallett, London, November 1936, as recorded in the RHRP ledger

The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. (X)194



Literature

M. Gillingham, Chinese Painted Enamels: An Exhibition Held in the [Ashmolean Museum] Department of Eastern Art, Oxford, 1978, p. 86, cat. no 116 (Fig. 1)



Exhibited

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Chinese Painted Enamels, An Exhibition held in the Department of Eastern Art, June-July 1978
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