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A TRANSPARENT PALE-GREEN-OVERLAY BUBBLE-SUFFUSED A comparable bottle, possibly the same bottle, is illustrated by Robert
CLEAR GLASS 'CHILONG' BOTTLE Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, England, 1991, p. 120, no. 119.
1740-1790
Of flattened rounded shape, with a tall cylindrical neck with medium For a very similarly decorated transparent amber glass bottle see Hugh
opening, each main face with an inward-coiling furcated-tailed chilong Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff
and with a smaller chilong on each of the narrow sides, the matrix Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. II, New York, 1993, p. 613, no. 369,
of the glass with some aubergine-toned swirls on each side, all where a comparison is drawn between this type of overlay and carved
supported a flat oval foot ring carved from the overlay. monochrome examples, and the likely connection between this group
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper and nephrite bottles carved with a similar subject, suggesting that
they may all represent a popular Palace style, perhaps from the first
$1,800 - 2,500 half of the eighteenth century. They continue that comparisons of this
sort endorse the view held by Yang Boda and Craig Clunas from their
1740-1790 透明地套淺綠料刻螭龍紋鼻煙壺一件 studies of the Imperial workshops that carvers responsible for carving
jade and other hardstones would also have turned their hands to
Provenance: carving glass.
Jeff Kramer Collection, Tarzana, USA
Robert Hall, London
來源：
Jeff Kramer收藏，Tarzana, 美國
Robert Hall，倫敦

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