Description
Snuff bottle of twin cylinder shape glazed with applied iron red enamel illustrating stylized peonies and vines. The base has underglaze Yung Cheng mark but is not of the period.
Exhibitions
Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2018.
Provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
spurious reign mark of Yongzheng [Yung-Cheng] (1722-1735)