Two rare Imperial Beijing enamel snuff bottles. Left: blue enamel mark and period of Qianlong. Right: Qing dynasty, Qianlong period. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

together with an old fitted box - 4.3 cm., 1 3/4 in. & 5 cm., 2 in. Estimate 2,500,000 — 3,000,000 HKD

Provenance: Collection of Honor Smith, acquired in Hong Kong, prior to 1968.
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., c 1971.
Collection of Paula J. Hallett.
Sotheby's New York, 2nd December 1985, lot 55.

Litterature: Hugh Moss, 'An Imperial Habit', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, December 1975, p. 7, fig. 18 & p. 8, fig 22 (bottle with peaches).
Ted H. Exstein, 'New York Auction Review', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Winter 1985, p. 29.
Sotheby's, Art at Auction. The Year at Sotheby's 1985-86, London, 1986, p. 378 top.
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 1107-08.