US$ 12,500 (CNY 83,886) 包括佣金

19/3/2018

邦瀚斯(Bonhams)

纽约

Chinese Works of Art and Paintings

A Rare Early Guyue Xuan Enameled glass snuff bottle Imperial Place Workshops ,Beijing 1769
Imperial Place Workshops ,Beijing 1769
The milky-white glass bottle with a flat ,flaring lip and a flat oval foot ,with a neat leiwen border in iron red at the neck ,a band of lingzhi heads around the shoulder ,one face with enameled lotus in pink and green ,the leaves delineated in black ,reversed with a poem in regular script in iron red ,dated jichou xia ri (1769 ,summer day) ,followed by two painted seals reading gu and yue ,the foot with a four character mark in regular script in iron red. 2 1/2in (6.5cm) high
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1769年 白料画珐琅花鸟莲纹鼻烟壶 《乾隆年製》款
This interesting enameled glass bottle is from a fairly small group of bottles ,several of which are precisely dated ,that were produced within the Forbidden City between the years 1767 and 1775. It is theorized that the bottles were created with the intent of being gifted by the emperor ,perhaps during the Autumn hunt.

Adorned with lotus or chrysanthemum ,these bottles would frequently feature a poem or poetic couplet in regular script written with iron-red enamels. On this bottle the poem was authored by the Ming dynasty painter Chen Chun (Chen Daofu ,1483-1544). The poem also appears in the Siku Quanshu ,24-87b.
Whereas the majority of the Guyue xuan bottles are designated as such by the standard three character iron red mark on the foot ,this bottle bears a four character Qianlong Nianzhi reign mark on the foot ,with the Guyue xuan connection indicated by two painted seals--Gu and Yue--that follow the poem. Other bottles from this same small group bear the reign marks around the neck ,or adjacent to the poem ,in addition to displaying the Gu and Yue painted seals.

A few other white glass enameled bottles from this interesting and precisely dated group have been offered in recent years. One from the J & J collection dated 1767 was sold at Christie’s New York on 22 March 2007 ,lot 43. Two others ,formerly in the collection of Mary and George Bloch ,one dated 1768 ,was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong 26 November 2013 ,lot 145; and one dated 1775 was sold at Bonham’s Hong Kong 27 May 2012 ,lot 62.
This compelling group has been carefully studied by Hugh Moss in "Mysteries of the Ancient Moon" ,ICSBS Journal ,Spring 2006 ,pp. 16-32 ,and further explored in Moss ,Graham and Tsang A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles ,vol. 6 pp. 182-194.