An Imperial Canton enamel ‘European subject’ snuff bottle, blue enamel mark and period of Qianlong. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

7.3 cm., 3 in. Estimation 400,000 — 500,000 HKD

Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 2nd December 1985, lot 124.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 1985.

Exposition: Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1987, cat. no. 11.
Kleine Schätze aus China. Snuff bottles—Sammlung von Mary und George Bloch erstmals in Österreich, Creditanstalt, Vienna, 1993.

Litterature: Ted H. Exstein, 'New York Auction Review', Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Winter 1985, p. 31.
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. 1134.

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