AN UNUSUAL ENAMELLED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

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AN UNUSUAL ENAMELLED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
GUYUEXUAN IRON RED MARK TO THE BASE, 1780-1880

Of spade shape, delicately painted to one side with a sparsely blossoming gnarled prunus and to the other with an unusual depiction of opium poppy, Yingzisu, with its serrated leaves and hairy stalk (some enamel misfiring, neck polish)--2 3/8in. (6cm.) high, stopper

拍品专文

For another Guyuexuan-marked spade-shaped bottle with flattened narrow sides also painted with prunus to one side, though in a broader technique, see Christie's, New York, December 3, 1992, lot 359. Another illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, Catalogue, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 84-85, pl. 65 is similarly painted but with the addition of a magpie in the branches of the prunus