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Property from the Bertholet Collection 貝氏情色藝術珍藏

A famille-rose ‘erotica’ snuff bottle Seal mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 粉彩春宮圖鼻煙壺 《乾隆年製》款

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Property from the Bertholet Collection

A famille-rose ‘erotica’ snuff bottle

Seal mark and period of Qianlong

貝氏情色藝術珍藏

清乾隆 粉彩春宮圖鼻煙壺 《乾隆年製》款


h. 6.2 cm

Ferry M. Bertholet, Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art, Brussels, 2010, pls 115-116.


貝索烈,《Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art》,布魯塞爾,2010年,圖版116-117.

The Chinese Pleasure Garden: Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collection, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, 2011.


《The Chinese Pleasure Garden: Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collection》,亞洲藝術博物館,柏林,2011年

A similar snuff bottle is in the collection of the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, illustrated in Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles: Masterpieces from the Rietberg Museum Zurich, Zurich, 1993, cat. no. 14. The Zurich example is similarly decorated in famille-rose with various activities of courtship on one side and variations of passionate intimacy on the other. Hall states that, although erotic-themes porcelain bottles are not uncommon, the composition as shown on the Rietberg example and the present lot is rare.


粉彩鼻煙壺,一面繪含蓄男女談笑言情,另一面則畫恣意愛侶繾綣交歡,一壺兩讀,可堪玩味。蘇黎世雷特伯格博物館有藏相類鼻煙壺,參見 Robert Hall,《Chinese Snuff Bottles: Masterpieces from the Rietberg Museum Zurich》,蘇黎世,1993年,編號14,作者指雖則春宮瓷瓶非罕,但如此構圖甚是少見。