USD 80,000 - USD 120,000

USD 145,000

2007年9月19日

纽约

佳士得(CHRISTIE’S)

**A VERY RARE ENAMELED WHITE GLASS "EUROPEAN SUBJECT" SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD, 1736-1770
Finely painted on each side with a vignette of European figures in a landscape with imaginary European towns in the distance, on one side two women, one with a basket of flowers on her back, converse while the man accompanying them, possibly a priest, looks up into the leafy branches of a tree, on the other main side a woman sits surrounded by three children, the youngest clinging to her lap while the boy behind her shields his eyes with one hand and rests the other on her shoulder, and the young girl looks towards the distant town, all within a border of scrolling yellow leaves and a blue, vertical band of three strands of rope on the narrow sides, the neck encircled by blue floral sprays, the foot inscribed in regular script Qianlong nian zhi (Made in the Qianlong period), mother-of-pearl stopper with coral collar
(4.3 cm.) high
来源:
Robert Hall, London.