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A TRANSPARENT DARK-PURPLE GLASS BOTTLE For another plain rounded bottle of dark amethyst-purple color, see
1780-1840 Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Of elegant, rounded spade shape below a cylindrical neck and Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 1,
supported on a short rounded oval foot ring and slightly concave base, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 119-120, no. 691, where it is noted that the
an even dark tone to the matrix of the glass. color probably derived from manganese oxide and may be the same
2 3/16in (5.6cm) high, stopper as the 'grape color' that appears in the Imperial records for 1725 and
1727.
$1,200 - 1,800
For an example of more rounded form and bearing a Qianlong mark,
1780-1840 透明深紫料胎鼻煙壺一件 see Clare Lawrence, The Alexander Brody Collection of Chinese Snuff
Bottles, London, 1995, p. 66, no. 97. For another with a circular panel
Provenance: on each main face, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang,
Lolo Sarnoff, Washington A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch
Sotheby's, 21 March 2015, lot 836 (1 of 3) Collection, Vol. 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 362-, no. 837.
來源：
Lolo Sarnoff，華盛頓州
蘇富比，2015年3月21日，拍品號836（三件之一）

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