TABATIERE EN VERRE EMAILLE GUYUE XUAN CHINE, IMPERIAL, MARQUE QIANLONG, 1775-1799

When the Qianlong reign mark was used at Yangzhou it was always a four-character, seal-script version, usually written in a single, horizontal line although some are four-square. What is extremely rare is to find the Qianlong mark used in combination with the Guyue Xuan mark which is incorporated here into the painting.

Compare with another bottle with the Qianlong and Guyue Xuan marks from the Meriem collection, sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 610 ; and with a bottle illustrated in Flacons Tabatières de Chine de la Collection du Commandeur: la Double Marque deRobert Kleiner, no. 6, p.7