A RARE ENAMEL SNUFFBOX AND COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD

细节

A RARE ENAMEL SNUFFBOX AND COVER
Qianlong period
Formed as a scallop shell and naturalistically decorated on the exterior, the cover also painted with two small crabs and blossoms, inside the cover is painted a beach scene showing a hermit crab in a conch shell beside another conch and two mussels
3in. (7.6cm.) wide

来源

Sotheby's London, XX June 1993, lot 107
A private American collection

拍品专文

A similar box in the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 637. Another was in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark and included in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of the Arts, London