拍品专文
This bottle bears comparsion with an un-marked example illustrated by Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, Catalogue, p.70, no. 37. Of near identical shape, it too illustrates a continuous riverscape around its body. Kleiner suggests that the Bloch example has all the hall-marks of a palace workshop product. He conjectures that it may have been painted by one of the court painters, also a skilled enameler, as an experiment, or perhaps as a private commission. The use of a simple Da Qing Nian Zhi mark on our example would definitely suggest a private commission for this bottle