A Cantonese enameled snuff bottle, with Qianlong mark

With a blue enameled four characters Qianlong mark on base, possibly late in the period.

Decorated with bright enamels in a continous European style scene around the body depicting a men and lady seated in a natural garden with rocks and flowers. Gilded metal lid with a coral bead. In very good condition.

Height: 5 

Provenance:

Private collection, Italy.

Bonhams, London 21st Sep 2021, lot 0518.

Sotheby's, New York, 15 March 1984, lot 231

Exhibited:

International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 26

References:

For a group of various Guangzhou European-subject bottles, see Tina Yee-wan Pang (Ed.), Heavenly Creations, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, p. 181-182, no's. 310-311 and 313, the first from the Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection and the latter from the Tuyet Nguyet Collection.

For another enamel bottle with a similar European lady in a central panel and painted with similar foot and neck decorative bands, see Ning Wang, One Man's Choice...II, Beijing, 2009, p. 73, no. 73.