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A SMALL TRANSPARENT GREEN AND AMBER GLASS SNUFF
BOTTLE
1720-1780
The compressed oviform amber glass body overlaid with green
glass bi discs carved with archaic comma motifs and with vigorous
clambering chilong in matching dark amber tones, with relief hanging
tassels to the narrow sides forming the handles; stopper.
1 7/8in (4.8cm) high
$2,200 - 2,800

1720-1780 綠套琥珀色料胎刻螭龍壁紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Sotheby’s, New York, 6 April 1990, lot 39

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 46

See Denis S.K.Low, More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened
Respect, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 135, no. 124, for a bottle of similar
shape and decorated with chilong amongst clouds. For another with
a pale green glass overlay chilong on a blue glass bi disc from the
Collection of Christopher Sin, (Fuyun Xuan), see Tina Yee-wan Pang,
(ed.) Heavenly Creations, University Museum and Art Gallery, The
University of Hong Kong, 2005, p. 47, no. 40.

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