PRINTThe precision of enameling and beauty of the workmanship of the present lot is of a superb quality. For another enamel on glass bottle decorated with blossoming flowers and swallows from the Qing court collection, currently preserved in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum , Taipei, 1992, p.107, pl.64.
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9013
A FAMILLE ROSE 'FLOWERS AND SWALLOWS' SNUFF BOTTLE
DAOGUANG AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850) |
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Of tapering baluster form, decorated with six protruding vertical panels, all enameled with scenes of birds, grasshopper and cicada amidst flowering branches of the four seasons below a band of lappets encircling the shoulder, interspersed with stylised foliage scrolls against a yellow ground, the base with a red-enameled four-character kaishu mark. |
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Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 234,000 - 352,000 7,700 - 11,600
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The precision of enameling and beauty of the workmanship of the present lot is of a superb quality. For another enamel on glass bottle decorated with blossoming flowers and swallows from the Qing court collection, currently preserved in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum , Taipei, 1992, p.107, pl.64.