Imperial Chinese milk glass snuff bottle 18th c., Imperially marked Qianlong Period (c.1740-1760). Famille Rose enamel painted with a Catholic missionary standing in a landscape with a Chinese attendant in tow, of baluster form with everted cylindrical neck tapering towards the foot, foot hidden but recessed with relief area nicely finished and polished to the underside. Underside with four character Imperial Qianlong mark.

Provenance: Acquired as a gift from a Maryland snuff bottle collector.From A Montreal Collector Lot notes:"A new chapter in the history of Chinese glass making began in 1696, the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Kangxi, when a glass factory was established within the imperial city in Beijing under the direction of the Jesuit missionary Kilian Stumpf (16??-I720). The type of glass produced there, of which this bottle is an example, was subsequently known in the West as Peking glass. Craftsmen were recruited from Boshan, the traditional center of glass making in China, and from Guangzhou (Canton). The workshop's peak period, in both quantity and quality of its wares, was between 1740 and 1760, in the early reign of the Qianlong emperor. Palace records show that Jesuits with expertise in certain Western glass making techniques were active in the workshop at this time. After 1760, glass production in the palace workshop declined rapidly, as did the quality of the wares." Metropolitain Museum New York Bulletin. 3269166.pdf.bannered.pdf

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