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AN UNUSUAL PALE GOLDEN-YELLOW OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1735-1800
The bottle is carved through the layer of pale golden-yellow on either side with a stylized
mallow fower with curled edges. The narrow sides are carved with mask and ring handles,
all on a milky, bubble-sufused ground.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

The Arthur Gadsby Collection, Hong Kong, 1978.
Important Chinese Snuf Bottles from the J & J Collection, Part III, Christie’s New York,
29 March 2006, lot 47.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2007.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4605.

EXHIBITED

New York, Christie’s, 1993.
Singapore, Empress Place Museum, 1994.
Frankfurt, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, 1996-1997.
London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1997.
Florida, Naples Museum of Art, 2002.
Oregon, Portland Museum of Art, 2002.
Taipei, National Museum of History, 2002.
New York, International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, 2003.
Beijing, Poly Art Museum, 2003.
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

LITERATURE

Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuf Bottle. The J & J Collection, Vol. 2,
New York/Tokyo, 1993 no. 367.

A number of bottles with this design are known, including several in diferent colors
of glass in the Marian Mayer Collection, illustrated by R. Hall, Chinese Snuf Bottles II,
London, 1989, nos. 86-90 and 93; one illustrated by H. Hui et. al., Hidden Treasures of the
Dragon, Hong Kong, 1991, p. 61, fg. 111; another illustrated by Robert Kleiner, A Miniature
Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 95; and a white
glass example in the collection of Denis Low illustrated by R. Kleiner, Treasures from the
Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Singapore, 1999, p. 101, no. 83.
1735-1800年 御製雪霏地套透明黃玻璃葵紋鼻煙壺

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