I.70
Blue Moon

Famille rose enamels on translucent glass; with a flat lip and flat foot; painted around three sides with a garden scene with blossoming prunus trees growing closely together behind a perforated rock formation alongside bamboo, with a butterfly in flight; the foot inscribed in iron-red regular script Guyue xuan 古月軒 (‘Ancient Moon Pavilion’)
Guyue xuan, palace workshops, Beijing 1770–1799
Height: 7.22 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.63/1.61 cm
Stopper: mother-of-pearl; tourmaline finial, gilt-bronze collar
                         
Provenance:
Hugh M. Moss Ltd, 1968–1974
Mrs Edward Dane
Dev Barker (by descent)
Robert Hall, January 2007

Published:
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1976), no. 960
Hugh Moss, ‘Enamelled Glass Wares of the Ku Yüeh Hsüan Group’, Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, June 1978, 24, fig. 38