An Imperial Canton enamel ‘Lady and children’ snuff bottle, Jingzhi Mark, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

5.9 cm., 2 3/8 in. Estimation 400,000 — 500,000 HKD

Provenance: Robert Hall, London, 1987.

Exposition: Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 19.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997.

Litterature: Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles [I], 1987, London, no. 70.
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles. Images of Asia, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 18, fig. 2.2.
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. 1136.

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