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A CARVED AVENTURINE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 213
1760-1840 15
The bottle is carved in crisp, low relief and incised in the round
with lotus, ducks, bats and birds in fight.

3º in. (8.2 cm.), matching aventurine stopper
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2701.

EXHIBITED

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

Moss, Graham and Tsang illustrate a blue glass bottle with
aventurine fecks from the J & J Collection and discuss in detail
the introduction of aventurine glass from Venice to Beijing and its
subsequent use in The Art of the Chinese Snuf Bottle: The J & J
Collection, Vol. II, New York 1993, p. 572-73. The Chinese admired
this glass and had dificulties producing it. It was imported in
blocks from Europe in the early part of the 18th century, before
the Chinese were successful in creating it. It was used as fecks
in colored glass bottles, and more rarely, as seen here, as a carved
material for solid bottles.

This bottle resembles the shape of a jade snuf bottle and
is carved much like jade examples created in the Imperial
Workshops. Another rare imperial bottle carved from a solid block
of aventurine glass, of ovoid form and carved with imperial-style
motifs, is illustrated by D. Low in Chinese Snuf Bottles from the
Sanctum of Enlightened Respect III, Singapore, 2007, p. 125,
no. 101.
1760-1840年 金星玻璃通景蓮塘圖鼻煙壺

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A MINIATURE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN
SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1790-1860
The bottle is decorated in polychrome enamels on either side with
a panel of a pavilion in a river landscape, with foral sprays on the
narrow sides, all on a yellow ground carved with a scrolling motif.
The base is covered in turquoise enamel.

1æ in. (4.4 cm.) high, glass stopper
$2,400-3,400

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 1869.
1790-1860年 袖珍黃地粉彩開光亭臺山水圖鼻煙壺