An Imperial enamelled glass ‘Chilong and Lingzhi’ snuff bottle, Guyue Xuan Mark, Palace Workshops, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

together with a watercolour illustration by Peter Suart; 5.8 cm., 2 3/8 in. - watercolour 40.7 by 33 cm., 16 by 13 1/8 in. Estimation 600,000 — 800,000 HKD

Provenance: Robert Hall, London, 1987.

Exposition: Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang, and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 19.
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 1994-1995.
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 33.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997.

Litterature: Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles [I], London, 1987, no. 49.
Mary and George Bloch, 'Favourite Snuff Bottles. The Mary and George Bloch Collection', Arts of Asia, September-October 1990, p. 96.
Ka Bo Tsang, 'Decoding Dragon Designs', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Autumn 2000, p. 26, fig. 41.
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. 1103.

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