A famille rose porcelain 'Eight Immortals' snuff bottle


Qianlong seal mark and possibly of the periodOf flattened spade shape surmounted by a waisted neck, vividly decorated in coloured enamels on both sides with the Eight Immortals with distinctive attributes amidst crested waves, the narrow sides painted in underglaze-blue with stylised floral sprays with a four-character seal mark on the base, stopper. 6cm (2 1/3in) high. (2).
|或清乾隆 瓷胎粉彩八仙鼻煙壺青花「乾隆年製」篆書款Provenance:A distinguished Asian private collection來源：亞洲顯赫私人收藏Compare with a famille rose 'hundred boys' snuff bottle, Qianlong mark and period, of a similar form and also decorated with a dense figural scene as in the present lot, from the Mary and George Bloch collection, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 May 2013, lot 216. For bottles of this flattened spade shape similarly painted with floral scrolls in underglaze blue or enamels on the narrow sides bearing a Qianlong mark, see M.C.Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin: Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2009, pp.286-291, nos.224-226.參考瑪麗及莊智博夫婦舊藏中一件形制類似並飾人物紋飾的粉彩百子圖鼻煙壺，帶有乾隆年紀年款，售於香港蘇富比，2013年5月27日，拍品編號216。另參考都柏林切斯特比特圖書館藏三例，其形制與本壺相似，壺身兩側同樣飾纏枝花卉紋並帶有乾隆年紀年款，見 M.C.Hughes，《The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin: Chinese Snuff Bottles》，香港，2009年，頁286-291，編號224-226。