A MAGNIFICENT BEIJING ENAMEL "EUROPEAN SUBJECT" SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1736-1780
A MAGNIFICENT BEIJING ENAMEL "EUROPEAN SUBJECT" SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1736-1780 Of compressed spherical form, finely enameled with a continuous frieze in which two European dandies are shown in conversation, one of whom points towards an elegant lady in a hat carrying a basket of fruit and accompanied by a young boy, all within a landscape with a lake and distant country house set between delicate floral bands at the neck, shoulders and base giving way to elaborate scalloping, the exposed metal at the neck and the foot gilded, the base inscribed in regular script Qianlong nian zhi (Made in the Qianlong period), the gilt-bronze stopper probably original; together with a watercolor by Malcolm Golding, signed and dated 1971 1 15/16 in. (4.95 cm.) high (2)
A MAGNIFICENT BEIJING ENAMEL "EUROPEAN SUBJECT" SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1736-1780
A MAGNIFICENT BEIJING ENAMEL "EUROPEAN SUBJECT" SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1736-1780 Of compressed spherical form, finely enameled with a continuous frieze in which two European dandies are shown in conversation, one of whom points towards an elegant lady in a hat carrying a basket of fruit and accompanied by a young boy, all within a landscape with a lake and distant country house set between delicate floral bands at the neck, shoulders and base giving way to elaborate scalloping, the exposed metal at the neck and the foot gilded, the base inscribed in regular script Qianlong nian zhi (Made in the Qianlong period), the gilt-bronze stopper probably original; together with a watercolor by Malcolm Golding, signed and dated 1971 1 15/16 in. (4.95 cm.) high (2)
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