PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ELLEN C. GOLDSCHMIDT A SUPERB GUYUE XUAN 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' CYLINDRICAL GLASS VESSEL1770-1800, unmarked but probably Imperial The finely enameled semi-opaque white glass body superbly painted in a continuous scene in the Guyuexuan style with 'The Three Friends of Winter', pine bamboo and prunus, each rising from a finely detailed pierced blue rockwork outcrop, with the bark of the pine and prunus trunks and branches delicately picked out, the branches of each fanning out around the body to perfectly epass the vessel with adequate breathing space filled by the white glass ground, a meticulously painted classic 'thunder-pattern', leiwen band in iron-red and yellow enamel encircles the rim, all supported on a short cylindrical foot ring. 4 1/4in (11cm) high 1770-1800年 或為古月軒御製 料胎琺瑯彩歲寒三友圖直筒瓶 Provenance: Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 28 November 1978, lot 421 Sotheby's,Hong Kong, 17 May 1989, lot 462 J. J. Lally & Co., NY, 1989 The Goldschmidt Collection, 1989 to the present Literature: Hugh M. Moss, "Enameled Glass Wares of the Ku Yueh Hsuan Group," ICSBS Journal , Vol. X, no. 2, June 1978, pl. 15, fig 9. 來源： 香港蘇富比，1978年11月28日，拍品編號421 香港蘇富比，1989年5月17日，拍品編號462 紐約藍理捷古董行（J.J. Lally & Co.），1989年 戈爾德施密特收藏（The Ellen C. Goldschmidt Collection）, 1989年至今 出版： 莫士撝，"Enameled Glass Wares of the Ku Yueh Hsuan Group"，《國際中國鼻煙壺協會學術期刊》卷十，冊二，1978年6月，圖版15，插圖9 According to Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection , Vol. 6, Part 1, Arts of the Fire, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 182-185, no. 1087, the Guyuexuan was a small terraced studio overlooking an enclosed courtyard of the Jian yuan ('Garden of Reflection'), a small part of the Changchun Yuan ('Garden of Eternal Spring') which was in turn part of the Yuanming Yuan ('Garden of Perfect Brightness')plex of gardens to the west of the Imperial City in Beijing. The Changchun Yuan was intended as a retirement home for the Qianlong emperor; construction was begun in 1751 but notpleted until 1767. The studio was apparently obliterated in or after 1810. For a variety of Guyuexuan marked and Guyuexuan style snuff bottles painted with similar subjects and bands of neck decoration, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinees Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection , Vol. 6, Part 1, Arts of the Fire, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 193-194, no. 1091; pp. 199-201, no. 1093; pp. 203-204, no. 1094 and pp. 212-213, no. 1098.