AN ENAMELED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, SCHOOL OF YE BENGQI Opaque white glass body with painted multicolor enamels. China, 1930-1960Delicately painted in decent colors to depict a bird on a branch surrounded by blooming peonies with their leaves and tendrils, a second bird sitting on a daihu rock, from which bamboo and a branch with red leaves emerge. A ruyi border on the neck and a canopy border around the foot rim complete the sceneShape: Flattened globular shapeHollowing: StandardMouth, neck and lip: Elongated cylindric neck with very wide mouth and flat opBase: Oval shape with raised foot rim. Apocryphal four-character mark qianlong nianzhi painted in blue enamels to baseStopper: Red jasper on onyx plateletHeight of the bottle with stopper: 6 cmWidth of the mouth: 9 mmWidth of the neck: 15 mmCondition: Excellent, the yellow enamel might be a bit fadedProvenance: German Private CollectionLiterature comparison: Hugh M. Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, 1993, Vol. I, lot 205. Xia Gengqi, Zhang Rong, Masterpieces of Snuff Bottles in The Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, lot 105. (for similar bottles).Expertise: Alexander Zacke琺瑯彩玻璃鼻煙壺, 葉菶祺大師流派不透明白玻璃, 多色琺瑯彩繪中國, 1930–1960 年花鳥紋細膩繪成, 包括枝上鳥, 開花牡丹, 太湖石上坐鳥, 竹與樹枝部分. 頸部帶如意連綿紋, 跟足部寶伞紋相對.形狀:平球形掏膛:標準瓶口、頸、瓶唇: 長圓柱形頸, 甚寬口, 平頭底足:橢圓形, 突出足邊, 後加乾隆年製印四字用藍色琺瑯繪在底蓋: 紅璦石雕蓋在縞瑪瑙片上高(帶蓋):6厘米口徑:0.9厘米頸部直徑:1.5厘米狀態敘述:完善, 紅色琺瑯或有點褪色來源:德國私人舊藏文獻: Hugh M. Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, 1993, Vol. I, 編號205. 夏更起、張榮編選《故宮博物院鼻煙壺選粹》, 北京:故宮博物院出版, 1995, 編號105.