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•239 This bottle depicts the mallow which is associated with the
A SANDWICHED GLASS ‘MALLOW FLOWER’ successful scholar. Its Chinese name gui is also a homophone
SNUFF BOTTLE on the word gui for “honor”. As such, the mallow fower is often
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1740-1830 depicted on a variety of bottles made from diferent materials. This
The translucent white glass bottle encases an inner layer of pink particular version of the design is known as fengjuangui, ‘mallow
glass most prevalent in the upper half of the bottle, and is delicately curling in the wind’, and is characterized by the wavy petals.
molded and carved on each side with a mallow-blossom.
A number of bottles with this design are known, including
2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper several in diferent colors of glass in the Marian Mayer collection,
illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuf Bottles II, London, 1989,
$12,000-18,000 nos. 86-90 and 93; one illustrated by Humphrey Hui et. al., Hidden
Treasures of the Dragon, Hong Kong, 1991, p. 61, fg. 111; and
PROVENANCE another illustrated by Robert Kleiner, A Miniature Art from the
Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 95.
The Charles Pietsch III Collection, Hawaii.
Robert Hall, London, 2001. 1740-1830年 御製白夾粉紅玻璃葵式鼻煙壺
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3177.

EXHIBITED

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

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