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

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。