Snuff bottle: Clear Glass Bottle with Painted Enamel Flowers and Yongzheng MarkThe painted enamel snuff bottles in the Palace Museum collections in the famille rose palette are the most beautiful and pleasing to the eye. The paintings in bright blues and rose and greens and yellows are attractive and showed off the skills of the artist painters. This tradition continues on to the present time, and this bottle is a fine contemporary bottle, exhibiting the same famille rose colors painted exquisitely and in great details on this

5ʺH DATING: 1970's

The top of the bottle dips towards the center opening - concave

a natural result of the enameling process

and short of seeing playful puppies portrayed in Chinese paintings

The round cylindrical shaped teapot is made with the bamboo theme

mid 19 century

45 inches high

rendered in the traditional gong bi manner of figure painting

This is a fine example of a CURIO where the wood carver carved two lotus pods with movable seeds and interlocking rings from a single block of wood

and age is an added bonus

it became one of my favorite classes at the University of Chicago

late Qing Dynasty to early Chinese Republic