Copper-body painted enamel snuff bottle with a white plum blossom design on a black background, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735), Qing dynasty

Copper-body painted enamel snuff bottle with a white plum blossom design on a black background, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1E000208N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  The flat round bottle is painted with a whole white plum tree on the black ground. The contrast is strong. The flowers are scattered on the back, and the bottom is “made in Yongzhengnian” in Song typeface blue. With copper plated gold carving lid and ivory spoon. It should be recorded in the Qing Palace’s “Work File” that in the 12th year of Yongzheng’s reign (1734), “ten pairs of white plum enamel snuff bottles in black and red places”.