AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL RUBY-GROUND FALANGCAI SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL PALACE WORKSHOPS BLUE-ENAMELLED MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG of slightly compressed double-gourd form, with a globular lower bulb and a pear-shaped upper section sweeping up to a narrow neck, crisply moulded and finely enamelled in a famille-rose palette with a long curling flowering vine and tendrils falling of the neck, and two sprays of nandina, asters and a branch of peach blossoms cinched with a sash around the waist, all against a dark ruby ground possibly imitating Yixing pottery, the rim gilded, the recessed base left white and inscribed in blue enamel with a four-character reign mark 8.3 cm., 3 1/4 in.
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL RUBY-GROUND FALANGCAI SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL PALACE WORKSHOPS BLUE-ENAMELLED MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG of slightly compressed double-gourd form, with a globular lower bulb and a pear-shaped upper section sweeping up to a narrow neck, crisply moulded and finely enamelled in a famille-rose palette with a long curling flowering vine and tendrils falling of the neck, and two sprays of nandina, asters and a branch of peach blossoms cinched with a sash around the waist, all against a dark ruby ground possibly imitating Yixing pottery, the rim gilded, the recessed base left white and inscribed in blue enamel with a four-character reign mark 8.3 cm., 3 1/4 in.
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