Puce Landscape

QING PERIOD 1644 to 1911

A MAGNIFICENT LANDSCAPE SCENE 珐琅彩 FALANGCAI SNUFF BOTTLE

The bottle of rounded flattened form.
Finely painted with a continuous Chinese landscape scene, in varying shades of puce.
Mountains in the far distance, a placid lake, mature trees, shrubbery and rockery on the foreshore.
A house on a small island joined by a bridge.
A man seated in a small sampan.
An idyllic scene.

The neck with green curlicues above a dotted blue band. Underneath a yellow necklace with ruyi heads in shades of blue edged in black.
The foot a blue dotted border.
A four character Qianlong Period Mark in cobalt blue against a white ground under.

A Miniature Masterpiece

Formerly the property of a Japanese collector

Condition: Excellent.
No original cap.

A modern gold metal colour filigreed stopper is offered.

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: 5.2 cm
Width about: 4.4 cm
A$3,500

Note: The bottles noted below are painted with identical collar and foot design as this bottle and appear related.


Similar Bottles:
Sold Sotheby's Hong Kong 10 February 2021 Lot # 3033
Sale price: 3,024,000 HKD
The Sotheby's bottle is of a similar colouring, a different landscape scene.


Christies Hong Kong J & J Collection 25 April 2004 Lot # 837
10 February 2021 Lot # 3033
Sale price: 1,519,750 HKD
The Christie's bottle is of a similar colouring, a different landscape scene

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

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).