PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF KIM GREEN AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLERepublic period Of slightly bulbous, rounded form with shoulders sloping to a waisted neck with flared mouth and resting on a concave oval footrim, finely decorated over a clear glaze with famille rose enamels with on one main side a crested bird perched on the branch of a blossoming tree looking at leafy peonies flowering beside rockwork, the reverse decorated with a single half-open bud on a leafy branch, the neck encircled in blue enamel with tasseled beads hanging from lingzhi heads, the base enameled in blue with an apocryphal Qianlong nianzhi mark; stopper. 2 1/4in (5.6cm) high 民國 瓷胎粉彩花鳥圖鼻煙壺 青花《乾隆年製》雙行雙方框楷書款 Provenance: A private New Zealand Collection Clare Chu, March 20th, 2008 Kim Green (1958-2017) Collection, no. 108 來源： 新西蘭私人收藏 Clare Chu女士舊藏，2008年3月20日 Kim Green（1958-2017）舊藏，藏品編號108 This example from the Republic period isparable in quality to the enameled porcelain bottle from the Rachelle R. Holden Collection illustrated in R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World – The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personalmentary , 1994, pp. 258-259, no. 113. It exemplifies the heights that were reached in terms of quality of enameling during that period of revival of the art of enameling on porcelain.