A SMALL CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL SNUFF DISH QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)Decorated with three chicks at play underneath a climbing bean plant, enamelled with Jinwei Tang Zhi hallmark on the base, with label refence '114' and 'H.R.N. Norton 194'4.4cm diameterProvenance:The Palmer Family Collection. H. R. N. Norton appears as a supplier to Reginald Howard Reed Palmer (1898-1970) in his ledger some 33 times. Norton had died by 1961 and so if this piece came from Norton, as its label suggests, it must have been bought by RHRP before 1961 and given to William Alexander Palmer shortly thereafter, or handed down to WAP in 1970 or 1981.According to Yinliuzhai shuoci [Commentary on Porcelain from the Studio of Drinking Streams], composed by Xu Zhiheng, the Jingweitang hallmark was used by princes of the royal family during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. Ming Wilson, in the exhibition catalogue Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1998, quotes Wang Qingzheng to suggest that objects bearing the Jingwei Tang mark possibly belonged to the Manchu high official Agedunbu.Exhibited:Michael Gillingham, Chinese Painted Enamels, An Exhibition held in the Department of Eastern Art, June & July 1978, Ashmolean Museum, illustrated p.86, no.114清乾隆 敬畏堂製款銅胎畫琺瑯安居圖鼻煙碟拍品來源：英國帕瑪家族顯赫私人收藏，作為 RHRP的供應商，H. R. N. Norton在他的收藏檔案中出現了大約33次;他去世於1961年，所以如果這件藏品來自諾頓，正如其標簽表明，它一定是在 1961 年之前被RHRP買下，並在此後不久送給William Alexander Palmer，或者在 1970 年或 1981年傳於他展覽信息：牛津阿什莫林博物館《中國畫琺瑯器》展覽，1978年六月-七月，展品編號114號《飲流齋說瓷》記載，敬畏堂制器物是雍幹年間親貴諸王所定燒，取名敬畏，為宋朝理學的核心術語，王陽明說：灑落為吾心之體，敬畏為灑落之功。因雍、幹二帝好講理學，故內廷和親王的堂名多用理學名詞命名，乃一時風氣。劉明倩曾於其展覽圖錄《Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics》，維多利亞與艾伯特博物館，倫敦，1998年，頁114，引述汪慶正之說，指敬畏堂堂號應屬滿族高官阿格敦布之物。

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