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A TRANSPARENT GREEN, AND OPAQUE OCHRE AND RED
‘SANDWICHED’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1840
Of compressed tear-drop shape with oval foot rim, the primary color of
a pale pea-green transparent glass, spotted throughout with opaque
specks of ochre and rust-red, all sandwiched between colorless glass
layers suffused with numerous air bubbles adding to the brilliance of
the whole; stopper.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$1,500 - 2,000

1730-1840 透明綠攪赭紅料胎鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Estrid Ericson, Stockholm
Skanart Auction, Stockholm, The Estrid Ericson Collection, 13 June
1983, lot 136
Guo’an Collection, inventory no. 372, Sweden
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, The Guo’an Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff
Bottles, 30 October 2000, lot 709
Bonhams, New York, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: From the Elsa
Glickman Collection, 3 March 2017, lot 1035

Literature:
Elsa Glickman, Chinese Snuff Bottle Mania, Stories of Collectors,
Trade, Intrigues and Gotham’s Auctions, New York, 2006, Front cover
(full page) and spine of dust jacket but with a different stopper.

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