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A SUPERB BEIJING ENAMEL SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1736-1770
A SUPERB BEIJING ENAMEL SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, QIANLONG BLUE ENAMEL FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, 1736-1770 Very finely enameled with a continuous landscape scene with an elderly scholar seated under a willow tree on a rock, one arm resting on a nearby branch and the other on his knee, wearing a tall black hat and long, flowing robes, with two books to his left, with two young attendants, one shown arranging flowers in a vase while the other returns from picking flowers, the entire scene set within formalized lingzhi -head, lotus petal, and leaf borders, the exposed metal at the neck and the foot gilded, the base inscribed in regular script Qianlong nian zhi (Made in the Qianlong period), the gilt-bronze stopper possibly original and decorated with a formalized floral design with integral finial and collar 1 7/8 in. (4.82 cm.) high