AN IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ SNUFF BOTTLE MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the ovoid body with a flat lip and slightly recessed, slightly convex foot surrounded by a protruding flat footrim, painted in famille-rose enamels on each main side with a panel enclosing a European subject, one depicting a bare-breasted woman wearing a scarf before a landscape with cottages nestled amongst green fields, the other with an old man and a young boy carrying a dog in their arms, all encircled by large floral blooms reserved on a bright yellow enamel ground, the rim and the foot with a white band, the interior of the neck with an additional metal lining below the lip, the base enamelled white and inscribed with a four-character mark in blue, all exposed metal gilt; stopper 6 cm, 2 3/8 in.
AN IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ SNUFF BOTTLE MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the ovoid body with a flat lip and slightly recessed, slightly convex foot surrounded by a protruding flat footrim, painted in famille-rose enamels on each main side with a panel enclosing a European subject, one depicting a bare-breasted woman wearing a scarf before a landscape with cottages nestled amongst green fields, the other with an old man and a young boy carrying a dog in their arms, all encircled by large floral blooms reserved on a bright yellow enamel ground, the rim and the foot with a white band, the interior of the neck with an additional metal lining below the lip, the base enamelled white and inscribed with a four-character mark in blue, all exposed metal gilt; stopper 6 cm, 2 3/8 in.
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