AN ENAMELED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

GUYUEXUAN IRON-RED THREE-CHARACTER MARK, 1780-1850

细节

AN ENAMELED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
Guyuexuan Iron-Red Three-Character Mark, 1780-1850
Of flattened oviform shape, painted in bright enamels with two quail on a grassy knoll below millet on one side and a grasshopper on blue rockwork above chrysanthemum on the other, the narrow sides simply faceted, all below blue ruyi-head and a pink band at the neck, stopper
2in. (6.2cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

For a smaller example of more flattened shape, painted with two quail below chrysanthemum on one side and a single quail near rockwork on the other, and also bearing an iron-red Guyuexuan mark, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, Catalogue, p. 74, no. 21

For an example with molded prunus on the narrow sides, but non-molded quail panels on each main face, see Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquis of Exeter, K.C.M.G., London and Bradford, 1974, pp. 104-105, no. E.6

See, also, footnote to lot 314. This bottle is a rare un-molded example of that type