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A SEMI-OPAQUE CERULIAN-BLUE OVERLAY TRANSPARENT For two other bottles displaying the same striking combination of
RUBY-RED GLASS 'CHILONG' BOTTLE colors, see Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 October 1993, The Eric Young
1750-1820 Collection, Part IV, lot 1078 with bats replacing the chilong of our
Of slender rectangular shape, the blue overlay carved with four example; and Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, England, 1991,
entwined chilong writing around the bottle in a sleeve-like band, a no. 112 depicting fish.
larger single chilong to the main sides and smaller chilong to the
narrow sides, the blue overlay similarly used to form the flat oval foot Another bottle of near identical shape with bats wrapped around the
ring, the tall cylindrical neck with a fairly wide opening. body in a central sleeve, but carved through a ruby-red overlay to
2 7/16in (6.1cm) high, stopper a lemon-yellow ground, see Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles,
London, 1971, no. 204.
$2,000 - 3,000

1750-1820 半透明寶石紅地套天藍料刻螭龍鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Helen and Peter Mirkine Collection, New York, and thence by descent
(The collection formed between 1961-1975).
Asia Art Studio, 2015
來源：
Helen及Peter Mirkine伉儷收藏，紐約，后由家族傳承（收藏組建於
1961-1975年）
亞洲藝術工作室，2015年

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