Bruce Maclaren
Global Head, Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy
Lot 127
A SILVER FILIGREE AND INSET GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Imperial palace workshops, 1750-1820
21 September 2020, 12:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$11,325 inc. premium
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Dessa Goddard
Senior Vice President, US Head, Asian Art Group
A SILVER FILIGREE AND INSET GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Imperial palace workshops, 1750-1820
Of compressed ovoid form with a flat lip and flat recessed foot surrounded by an oval foot rim, the main sides with coiled silver filigree on a copper ground with a floral design with aubergine, green and blue enamels, the two narrow sides with a row of seventeen inset emerald cut ruby red glass facets, the silver with a gilt wash, with a corresponding stopper with blue enamel surrounding a floral blossom composed of ruby red and clear glass, the spoon 18 karat gold.
2 3/8in (6cm) high, exclusive of the stopper
Of compressed ovoid form with a flat lip and flat recessed foot surrounded by an oval foot rim, the main sides with coiled silver filigree on a copper ground with a floral design with aubergine, green and blue enamels, the two narrow sides with a row of seventeen inset emerald cut ruby red glass facets, the silver with a gilt wash, with a corresponding stopper with blue enamel surrounding a floral blossom composed of ruby red and clear glass, the spoon 18 karat gold.
2 3/8in (6cm) high, exclusive of the stopper
Footnotes
1750-1820年 御製銀掐絲嵌寶鼻煙壺
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Jades, Works of Art, and Snuff Bottles, 25 and 26 February 1982, lot 96
來源
紐約蘇富比，1982年2月24-25日，拍品編號96
This bottle is from a small group of nearly identical bottles likely produced by the Imperial Studios in the late Qianlong/Jiaqing periods. These bottles have an aesthetic of luxury and splendor. The gilt wash, the sparkling glass 'gems', and the bright enamels all combine to endow the bottle with a fancy demeanor. In A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 6 no. 1121--where the present bottle is also recorded alongside a similar example formerly in the Bloch collection—the thin enameling technique known in Chinese as zantai falang and it's likely Guangzhou origins are eloquently explained.
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