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AN OPAQUE OLIVE-GREEN AND OCHRE-RED GLASS SNUFF A REALGAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
BOTTLE 1720-1830
1730-1820 Of spade shape with short cylindrical neck, the glass overall orange
Of compressed spherical shape, the body of the vessel with variously- tone with patches of red and swirling yellow inclusions; stopper.
shaped striated ochre-red glass inclusions suggestive of an aquatic 2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
scene; stopper.
2 1/16in (5.3cm) high $1,800 - 2,500

$1,500 - 2,000 1720-1830 仿雄黃料胎鼻煙壺

1730-1820 不透明松石綠地料胎攪赭紅色鼻煙壺 Provenance:
Robert Hall, 2 April 2005
Provenance:
William Doyle Galleries, New York, 5 May 1982, lot 150 Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
Exhibited: November 2013, no. 110
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 17 For a bottle of similar spade shape but with a waisted neck, see
Michael C Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff
For a similar example with dappled variegated cinnabar-red glass Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp. 240-241, no. 188. That realgar glass
inclusions on beige ground rather than the pale turquoise-green of was amongst the earliest produced at the beginning of the eighteenth
ours, and a discussion of the technique used to roll these cooled century seems fairly well established, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham
fragments on to the surface of the glass prior to re-heating, see Hugh and Ka Bo Tsang, Treasury, Vol. 5, Part 1, Glass, Hong Kong, 2002,
Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff p.138, no. 703, where the authors discuss its production at length.
Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 1, p. 156,
no. 714.

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