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25 - 26/5/2011

邦瀚斯(Bonhams)

香港港岛香格里拉大酒店

FINE CHINESE ART

A mother-of-pearl and translucent milkyblue glass Pekinese dogs and doves snuff bottle Embellishment: Imperial ,probably Beijing ,1820?1850 (the bottle: attributed to the palace glassworks ,1700?1800)
Embellishment: Imperial ,probably Beijing ,1820–1850 (the bottle: attributed to the palace glassworks ,1700–1800) 5.25cm high.
注脚
Treasury 7 ,no. 1671
蓝玻璃嵌螺钿北京狗鸽子鼻烟壶
壶：推定为宫廷玻璃作坊作，1700～1800
点缀：御製品，或为北京作，1820～1850
A mother-of-pearl and translucent milky-blue glass ’Peking dogs and doves’ snuff bottle
(’Embellished for the Emperor’)
Mother-of-pearl and translucent milky-blue glass of two colours; with a flat lip and recessed ,flat foot surrounded by a protruding ,flat footrim; embellished with carved segments of mother-of-pearl on one main side with two Pekinese dogs reclining on a flower-studded grassy ground ,and on the other with two doves on a similar ground with bamboo ,the narrow sides with mask-and-ring handles
Height: 5.25 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.87/1.58 cm
Bottle: attributed to the palace glassworks ,1700–1800
Embellishment: imperial ,probably Beijing ,1821–1850
Stopper: sapphire; gilt-bronze collar ,engraved with radiating lines
Condition:Glass bottle: wear and abrasions from use. Embellishment: one mask-and-ring handle has the original ring re-stuck at a slightly wrong angle. General relative condition: unusually good
Provenance:
Pat Miller
Robert Kleiner (2005)
Published:
Stevens 1976 ,no. 825
Treasury 7 ,no. 1671
Commentary
Early Chinese embellished bottles are relatively rare ,despite the regular references to them in the imperial archives related to the palace workshops at Beijing from the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. Among those that have survived is a small group of wares embellished with mother-of-pearl in a simple ,folk-art style that we have previously considered to be mid-Qing. This bottle seems to suggest that even if they began in the Qianlong reign ,however ,they were still being made into the Daoguang ,since this subject is generally (and possibly accurately) associated with the Daoguang emperor.
The basic bottle here is obviously of some age and considerably older than the embellishing; the pattern of natural wear that covers the surface goes beneath the embellishment. It was used extensively before being decorated ,then ,and since we can date the decoration to the Daoguang period with some confidence ,there is every reason to believe that the bottle is from earlier in the dynasty. This colour of blue glass seems to have been in early use at the palace. It is an uncarved overlay of the type known as sutao. It has the two layers of colour—a paler ,milkier blue overlaid with a darker colour—typical of the eighteenth century. Whenever the glass bottle was made ,however ,the work as we have it now was decorated for the Daoguang emperor ,or so we may assume. (See Sale 2 ,lot 50 ,where others of the subject are cited in various media; and Treasury 6 ,no. 1327.)
This type of work is ,of course ,fragile and susceptible to damage; this one is in astonishingly good condition ,the only minor problem being that one ring on the mask handles has a tiny dislodged segment glued back in slightly the wrong position ,giving it an odd shape for a hanging ring.
For a magnificent early embellished glass snuff bottle that is of Chinese workmanship ,see White 1990 ,plate 70 ,no. 2. For two embellished amber snuff bottles in the imperial collection ,both early but simple in style and design ,see Chang 1991a ,nos. 390 and 391. For three others ,see Ford 1982,no. 138 ,also with mother-of-pearl on blue glass with mask-and-ring handles ,closely related to the present example; no. 143 ,also closely related ,but with other materials in addition to mother-of-pearl; and no. 141 ,of the same broad group but without the mother-of-pearl. Another in mother-of-pearl on an old moss-agate snuff bottle was in the Edmund Dwyer Collection (Christie’s ,London ,12 October 1987 ,lot 195; and JICSBS ,Summer 1984 ,front cover). Two more ,both on blue glass and with mask handles ,and both in mother-of-pearl only ,are in Geng and Zhao 1992 ,nos. 101 and 102.
蓝玻璃嵌螺钿北京狗鸽子鼻烟壶
螺钿、透亮的混浊不清的二色蓝玻璃；平唇，平敛底，突出圈足，圈足底完全接触地面；两侧面镶贴兽首卸环耳
高：5.25 厘米
口经/唇经：0.87/1.58 厘米
壶：推定为宫廷玻璃作坊作，1700–1800
点缀：御製品，大概作于北京，1821–1850
盖： 蓝宝石；鎏金青铜座，阴刻放射状斜行直线
状态叙述： 玻璃壶：经过岁月的触摸以后，呈磨耗；点缀: 一个兽首卸环耳的环耳重新修复后稍显歪斜。总体品相： 格外好
来源：
Pat Miller
Robert Kleiner (2005)
文献：
Stevens 1976 ,编号 825
Treasury 7 ,编号 1671
说明：
中国镶贴鼻烟壶始见于有关北京雍正、乾隆朝宫廷作坊的记录，现存的不多，而其中有一种贝壳点缀的民间艺术风味作品，我们向来认为是清中期作的。不过，从此壶的题材来看，因为 "成庙喜鸽，而贵嫔喜小狗。故当时瓷盌多画此二物" （陈浏著《陶雅》），到了清成帝宣宗旻宁在位的道光年间，镶贴法似乎还在沿用。参阅第二场拍卖会， 拍卖品号 50。
这件壶本身比点缀的图案时代要早，壶外壁的磨擦痕有潜在贝壳之下的。而且，这种蓝色的玻璃在宫廷里使用的比较早。混浊淡蓝受深蓝是十八世纪典型的套料，而这是未雕饰的素套壶。
其他的例子，请参见本壶的英文说明最后一段。