Landscapes

QING PERIOD 1644 to 1911

A MAGNIFICENT RARE LANDSCAPES 珐琅彩 FALANGCAI SNUFF BOTTLE

The bottle of flattened ovoid form.
Each side bearing a a large oval cartouche, containing a landscape scene having a close resemblance to the Chinese classical style of landscape painting.
Blue grey cliff face, green pastures, tranquil waters, a boatman poling his small sampan.
A low rocky embankment, rock formations surrounded by lush foliage and trees, a blue roofed house visible.

The reverse; a scholar carrying his staff accompanied by an attendant, making their way across meadowlands to his old hut.
Set, beside verdant greenery, a flourishing bifurcated tree growing on a rock formation.
A placid lake in the background, a rising cliff face, rocks and grasses.

The bottle having a yellow lemon yellow ground, the sides painted with a variety of different flowers including lotus , peonies, asters, scrolling acanthus in a multitude of colours and shades.

The neck, iron red scrolling set between two borders against a white ground, the foot with two circlets of the same colour.

The base with Qianlong period mark against an aqua ground.

This superb bottle is comparable in quality to those bottles produced in the Imperial Workshops of the Imperial Palace, 造 辦 處 Zaobanchu .

Formerly the property of a Japanese collector

Condition: Excellent.

Cap may not be original.


Refer Large Images for details, quality and condition, they also form the description.
Depending on your computer monitor / phone / etc colour may vary to actual.

Dimensions are maximum measurements

Height about: 4.6 cm
Width about: 4.2 cm
A$3,500


Similar Bottles:
Titled as "The Pugh Literati landscape Bottle"
Sotheby's New York 1 April 2005 Lot 405 Sold 192,000 USD
The Sotheby's bottle is virtually identical in painting and size.


Enamel snuff bottles painted with European scenes were a favourite of the Chinese Court and Chinese collectors in the Qing Period 1644 to 1911.
Snuff bottles were in great demand by western collectors starting in the 19th century and still are.
Snuff bottles with European style artworks were normally based on prints and books transported to China by travellers.
The demand for Chinese art and antiques exploded when the first appropriated artworks taken from the Summer Palace made their way back to England France etc.
Considered by all the major experts such as Bob C. Stevens (the Collectors Book of Snuff Bottlers 1976) and the major famous collections, such as Guo'an. Bloch. Meriem. J & J. to name a few.
The finest of all snuff bottles are those that are enamelled on copper, brass, glass, gold.
The art of enamelling was introduced to the Chinese Court in the Kangxi era 1654 to 1722, by the Jesuit Guiseppe Castiglione (Lan Shining).