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A RARE IMPERIAL-TYPE SEMI-TRANSPARENT PEA-GREEN For an opaque green glass bottle carved in relief with the same design,
GLASS 'PHOENIX AND DRAGON' BOTTLE though with cinnabar-red speckles, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham
1730-1790 and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J
Of slightly bulbous pear shape, each side meticulously carved with a Collection, Vol. II, New York, 1993, p. 612, no. 368, where the authors
different character formed from conjoined dragon and phoenix headed note that the subject matter is derived from the kui dragons which
archaistic scrolls, one reading long and the other shou and separated abound on ancient bronzes and have occurred frequently since the
on the narrow sides at the shoulders with fixed-ring lion-mask handles, Song dynasty as archaistic motifs. They continue that the arrangement
all below a very slightly waisted cylindrical neck with a wide mouth in the form of a character is sometimes difficult to discern but clearly in
opening and supported on a shallow rounded oval foot ring. this case can be said to represent the character long (dragon).
2 1/4in (5.5cm) high, stopper
See also Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection
$6,000 - 10,000 of John Ault, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 16, no. 20, for a semi-transparent
pale green glass with similar dragon panels, and the likelihood of
1730-1790 御製式半透明綠料刻仿古龍鳳紋帶舖首啣環鼻煙壺一件 connection between these glass bottles and the Imperial Duan stone
examples.
Provenance:
The Bentley Collection, London
Asian Art Studio, Inc.
Sotheby's New York, April 1st, 2005, lot 500
The Avrina Pugh Collection, no. 54C
Asian Art Studio, Inc.

來源：
Bentley收藏，倫敦
亞洲藝術工作室
蘇富比，紐約，2005年4月1日，拍品號500
The Avrina Pugh收藏，編號54C
亞洲藝術工作室

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