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AN UNUSUAL REALGAR GLASS BOTTLE 來源：
1730-1800 莫士撝，香港，1992年
With an attractive bulbous spade form and an alluring and unusual, 蘇富比，香港，瑪麗及莊智博珍藏，第十部分，2015年5月311日，
purple-toned matrix with enigmatic abstract swirls of orange, red, 拍品號81
yellow and dark-purple to the lower two-thirds of the body with an
appearance of effusive volcanic activity, between a simple cylindrical 展覽：
neck and a flat oval foot. Kleine Schätze aus China. Snuff Bottles—Sammlung von Mary und
George Bloch erstmals in Österreich，Creditanstalt，維也納，1993年
2 1/4in (5.6cm) high, stopper
出版：
$3,000 - 5,000 莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷五，香港，2002
1730-1800 仿雄黃料胎鼻煙壺一件 年，編號707
Provenance: 'Realgar glass' is one of the most intriguing types of glass produced
Hugh Moss Ltd., Hong Kong, 1992 by the Chinese and it seems was one of the earliest types made under
Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part X, the Qing glass renaissance. For a lengthy discussion of the subject
31 May 2015, lot 81 and the mineral realgar from which it drew its inspiration, see Hugh
Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Exhibited: Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 1, Hong
Kleine Schätze aus China. Snuff Bottles—Sammlung von Mary und Kong, 2002, pp. 138-143. The authors also discus, ibid, p. 147, no.
George Bloch erstmals in Österreich, Creditanstalt, Vienna, 1993. 707, in referring to this very bottle, the wide range of colors within the
group.
Literature:
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong
Kong, 2002, no. 707.

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