A MAGNIFICENT ENAMEL ON MOLDED AND CARVED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE of flattened circular form with shoulders sloping to a slightly everted mouth, supported on a flared neatly carved footrim, the milky white glass brilliantly carved and painted in famille-rose enamels on both faces, one depicting a proud phoenix perched on pierced rockwork, accompanied by dramatically rendered peonies, the reverse with two quail standing below tall chrysanthemum sprays growing from dramatic rockwork, the base inscribed in iron-red guyue xuan height 2 1/4 in., 5.7 cm GUYUE XUAN MARK, 1767-1799 IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING
A MAGNIFICENT ENAMEL ON MOLDED AND CARVED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE of flattened circular form with shoulders sloping to a slightly everted mouth, supported on a flared neatly carved footrim, the milky white glass brilliantly carved and painted in famille-rose enamels on both faces, one depicting a proud phoenix perched on pierced rockwork, accompanied by dramatically rendered peonies, the reverse with two quail standing below tall chrysanthemum sprays growing from dramatic rockwork, the base inscribed in iron-red guyue xuan height 2 1/4 in., 5.7 cm GUYUE XUAN MARK, 1767-1799 IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING
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