A RARE GUYUE XUAN 'GRASSHOPPER' ENAMELED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Opaque white glass, with design in

A RARE GUYUE XUAN 'GRASSHOPPER' ENAMELED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Opaque white glass, with design in painted multicolor enamels. China, ca. 1775-1795 IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO YANGZHOU, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED FOUR CHARACTER SEAL SCRIPT ON THE BASE AND OF THE PERIOD. Delicately painted with a grasshopper seated on one of a cluster of pinks growing next to several other blue and yellow flowers, surrounded by long leaves arching over onto the other side where four butterflies hover above a group of smaller flowers. Hugh M. Moss comments a similar design on another Guyue Xuan bottle attributed to Yangzhou as follows: ‘The style of painting is quite different from most of the court wares, and the enamels were used in a thinner, more painterly manner than most of their Beijing counterparts. 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.’Shape: Flattened heart form with broad shouldersHollowing: StandardMouth, neck and lip: Elongated cylindric neck, narrow mouthBase: Raised oval flat baseStopper: Tourmaline cabochon mounted in cast bronze with décor borders in high reliefHeight of the bottle with stopper: 6.7 cmWidth of the mouth: 14 mmWidth of the neck: 6 mmCondition: Excellent, the colors vivid and intensive, the white glass with very minor firing imperfections and wearProvenance: British private collectionLiterature comparison: The Meriem Collection of Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Christie’s, September 19 2007, New York, lot 610. (for a bottle with an almost identical design, yet of different shape and with an additional Guyue Xuan mark). Mysteries of the Ancient Moon, Hugh M. Moss, JICSBS, Spring 2006. (for an essay where the group attributed to Yangzhou is discussed on pp. 31 and 32 with several illustrated examples).Expertise: Alexander Zacke罕見古月軒白料琺瑯彩蚱蜢鼻煙壺不透明白玻璃，多色琺瑯彩繪圖案，中國，約1775-1795年御製品, 大約揚州製造. 底足篆書乾隆款四字款.蚱蜢坐在紫色花上, 周圍有藍、黃色花, 葉與蝴蝶紋，生動活潑形狀：平面心形，削肩掏膛：標準瓶口、頸、瓶唇： 長圓柱形頸，窄口底足：橢圓形凸出底蓋: 鑲青銅電氣石, 邊帶凸出紋高（帶蓋）：6.7厘米口徑：1.4厘米頸部直徑：0.6厘米狀態敘述：完善, 濃色彩活躍如生, 白玻璃細小的部分磨損來源：英國私人舊藏文獻: The Meriem Collection of Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Christie’s, 2007年9月19日, New York, 編號610. Mysteries of the Ancient Moon, Hugh M. Moss, JICSBS, Spring 2006, 頁 31–32.