98 - A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEYANGZHOU, APOCRYPHAL IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK OF QIANLONG, 1850-1910

A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELLED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEYANGZHOU, APOCRYPHAL IRON-RED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK OF QIANLONG, 1850-1910 To Be Sold Without Reserve Of square section, with rounded edges, tapering to a waisted cylindrical neck with a flat lip and protruding, flat, circular foot, painted on each of the four panels with various fruits and vegetables, including two varieties of lychee in one panel, double gourds, a pumpkin-shaped gourd, and a pair of other fruit in another, a fruiting branch, a turnip, a pair of peppers, and two smaller, spherical fruit in a third, and an orange, or grapefruit on a branch, three tangerines, some peanuts, and two other small items on the fourth, set between a base band of formalized flowers and an elaborate shoulder band of formalized lingzhi-heads filled with flower-heads beneath a neck band of formalized flowers, the foot inscribed in iron-red seal script, Qianlong nian 乾隆年制 zhi (Made in the Qianlong period) in a square format Height: 6.4cm Provenance: Robert Hall, December 2005 Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, 16th April 2006, (a copy of the original invoice available) For a discussion on this group of Yangzhou enamelled bottles, illustrated, discussed and re-dated by Hugh Moss and Stuart H. Sargent, The Yangzhou Conundrum, August 2018. Amongst the Yangzhou enamelled glass bottles, this is extremely rare, with its unique square section, and unusual fruit and vegetable subject, where all of them are auspicious or symbolic of one thing or another. It is also in unusually good condition for a group where the much more thinly used, painterly enamels are prone to wear Ω This Lot was imported from outside of the UK, under the Temporary Admission regime 5% import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer” and 20% VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium