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A FACETED GREEN GLASS
SNUFF BOTTLE 254
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, (two views)
1720-1850
The translucent green glass bottle is carved 47
on either side with a faceted convex oval
panel. The base is carved with a four-
character Daoguang nian zhi mark.

2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper and
metal spoon

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

The Lin Collection, Taipei.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2003.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 3662.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle
Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.
1720-1850年
御製松石綠玻璃磨花鼻煙壺

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A MOLDED AND ENAMELED
PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS,
DAOGUANG FOUR-CHARACTER
SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF
THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The bottle is molded with a green, fve-
clawed dragon with aubergine mane
striding around the sides in pursuit of an
iron-red faming pearl.

2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 2006.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4319.

EXHIBITED

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

An identical bottle from the Mary and
George Bloch Collection is illustrated
in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of
Chinese Snuf Bottles, The Mary and
George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 3,
Hong Kong, 2008, no. 1336, pp. 727-28.
清道光 御製粉彩模印龍紋鼻煙壺
礬紅四字篆書款

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