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(two views) AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED BINGSHEN
207 (1896)
10 The bottle is decorated with Zhong Kui riding on the back
of a donkey and being followed by a demon-attendant.
The reverse is decorated with a boy on a bufalo beneath
willows and with an inscription incorporating a cyclical
date, bingshen (1896), and a signature, Ye Zhongsan.

2Ω in. (6.4 cm.), glass stopper
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Susan B. Hacker.
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society
Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September
2008.

LITERATURE

I.C.S.B.S., Journal, Autumn, 1982, p. 18.
丙申年（1896） 葉仲三作玻璃内畫鍾馗圖鼻煙壺

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A WELL-HOLLOWED MOTTLED GREEN
JADEITE SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1860
The translucent stone is mottled with dark green, apple
green and pale green patches.

2º in. (5.6 cm.) high, glass stopper, metal spoon

$2,000-4,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 3026.

Jadeite was sourced from a remote part of Burma and
frst attracted the attention, and then the passion of the
Qianlong emperor, although regular supplies of the stone
had to await the normalization of previously uneasy
relations between China and Burma in 1784. In the latter
part of the Qianlong reign, snuf bottles were regularly
made of jadeite for, and at the Court, and its ongoing
popularity may be seen in a series of porcelain bottles
and other wares with glazes imitating jadeite made
during the Daoguang period (Moss, Graham and Tsang,
The Art of the Chinese Snuf Bottle. The J & J Collection,
New York/Tokyo, 1993, no. 251). The Palace and other
glassworks also made bottles that simulated jadeite in
both color and weight.

The color combination of the present bottle is unusual
with its dark emerald and apple-green mottling, but the
shape and fne hollowing suggest an early example. The
high gloss polish on the bottle helps to exemplify the
color and translucency of the stone.
1780-1860年 翠玉鼻煙壺