Vintage Painted Glass Snuff Bottle in Famille Rose Enamel with Qianlong MarkThe painted enamel snuff bottles in the Palace Museum collections in the famille rose palette are the most beautiful and pleasing to the eye. The paintings in bright blues and rose and greens and yellows are attractive and showed off the skills of the artist painters. This tradition continues on to the present time, and this bottle is a fine contemporary bottle, exhibiting the same famille rose colors painted exquisitely and in great details on this

Both required good eyesight and precision work

Pink Rhodonite is a manganese inosilicate

The carving is very subtle and the artist/carver cleverly carved above a rust color vein so it became the base of a large lotus leaf

a green stone that is laced with shimmering patterns of silver

That was the days before television and movies and we hungered for the continuation of the story

household goods and so on

accurate dating is essential in determining accurate prices

a feature that showed the bottle was made with great care

) Canton was located on the estuary of the Pearl River

It differs from cloisonne where fired enamel colors coat the entire surface

The opaline (milk glass) has a deep blue overlay that has been carefully carved out leaving bold images of birds and  flowers

There is a four character spurious Qianlong mark