Qianlong four-character mark and of the period Of flattened flask form with a flat oval rim and a slightly convex base, finely enamelled on one side with a woman in a rose-coloured dress holding a plate of pomegranates followed by a little boy dressed in a green tunic holding on to her dress, the boy's eyes fixed on the pomegranates and his hands lifted to towards the plate, the opposite side with two women seated on the pavement of a garden terrace, each pictorial cartouche surrounded by a blue foliate band, the narrow sides with lotus scrolls on a lemon-yellow ground and stippled dots, the white-enamelled base painted with a four-character mark reading Qianlong nian zhi in blue, domed gilt-metal stopper, box. 5.5cm (2 1/8in) high. (2).Footnotes清乾隆 銅胎廣東畫琺瑯西洋母子及人物圖鼻煙壺 藍料「乾隆年製」楷書款 Finely painted in vivid tones and featuring vignettes of Europeans enjoying each other's company or conveying Chinese auspicious meanings in a setting distinguished by European architecture and distant peaks, the present bottle belongs to a group of Qianlong mark and period Canton enamel snuff bottles sharing these characteristics, probably produced by the same hand or workshop. Compare with a related snuff bottle from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 June 2021, lot 1012; and another painted enamel bottle of this type showing a mother, child, and gift-bearer on the balcony of a European castle, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Lifting the Spirit and Body: The Art and Culture of Snuff Bottle, Taipei, 2012, pl.II-019, p.122. 削肩扁壺以檸檬黃為地彩繪纏枝卷草紋，雙面菱形開光内繪西洋母子及人物圖，底有楷書「乾隆年製」藍款，帶雕花金屬蓋。 參看臺北故宮博物院一件銅胎畫琺瑯西洋母子鼻煙壺，見《通嚏清揚—鼻烟壺文化特展》，臺北，2012，圖版II-019，頁122；香港蘇富比亦曾售出一件西洋人物圖鼻煙壺，2021年6月4日，拍品編號1012。