A Chinese white peking glass enameled snuff bottle, with Qianlong Mark, Ye Benqi,Beijing1930-1940s. of compressed form with flat lip and recessed flat oval foot surrounded by a foot rim, finely enameled with a continuous design of a lush garden setting ,with two birds standing on the tree branch ,perforated rock formation, the other side with flowering roses and orchids growing beside another ornamental rock, all below a band of formalized floral scroll and a band formalized Lingzhi heads encircling the neck and shoulders, the base inscribed with apocryphal Qianlong four character mark in blue enamel regular script,white glass stopper Catalogue Note: in early 1974, shortly before his death, Ye Bengqi admitted in an interview with Hugh Moss to producing perhaps thrity to forty copies of Imperial Place enamels between about 1925 to 1940; he also identified a number of published and photographed works shown to him at the time as his own, Ye's copies are so impressive ,that for half a century they convinced experts all over the world that they were genuine Qianlong products; and conversely, genuine examples, some of which are not as technically proficient, were subsequetly questioned, today Ye's works are treated as masterpieces in their own right, although Ye did no enamelling in the 1940s and the early 1950s, he took up the art again the the late 1950s in order to teach his star pupil Wang Xisan and produced a small number of bottles as demonstration pieces, Since they no longer needed to be exact copies of Imperial originals, these few later works are often stylistically more intriguing
H. 2 1/2" (6.3 cm)
Provenance: Hugh Moss Ltd, acquired in early 90s similar example can be found in Chritie's Paris on Nov 20th 2008, Art d'Asie Sale lot 40 for EUR 39,400 another similar example was sold in Christie's New York on Mar 20th,2013 "The Hildegard Schonfeld Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles" sale lot 1065 for USD 32,500

Condition: the enamels are vibrant and the bottle appears to be in excellent condition

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