清嘉慶 御製松石綠地粉彩纏枝蕃蓮葫蘆鼻煙壺 《嘉慶年製》款

with a flat lip and no foot, the double-gourd form painted with a formalized design repeated on each main side of flowers with an Indian lotus metamorphosing into a peach beneath another flower and a formalized shou character in seal script, three formalized flower heads on the narrow sides straddling the gap between the two main designs, all elements of the design outlined in gold in imitation of exposed cloison borders, the base inscribed with the four-character seal mark in gold enamel, the lip painted in gold enamel; the gilt-silver stopper chased with a formalized floral design

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Robert Kleiner，倫敦，2005年

Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷6，香港，2007年，編號1251

There is some wear to the gold enamel on the lip and to the mark; otherwise the snuff bottle is in overall good condition.
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This bottle blongs to a rare group of bottles that imitate cloisonné enamel, with the painted gold lines surrounding the elements of the design representing gilt copper wires. Several sets of similar bottles survive, mostly in the imperial collection in Taipei. They vary in form and in the details of the formalized floral designs, although all are of the same colour combination and all are set on a turquoise-blue ground that is paler than the standard for cloisonné. All have their original stoppers, made of porcelain but imitating coral with gilt-bronze finials and collars, a standard for sets of Jingdezhen imperial porcelain bottles of the late-Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns.