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A PALE CAFE-AU-LAIT GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1790
Of compressed rounded shape with waisted neck, the bottle plain
save for simple lion-mask handles on the shoulders of the narrow
sides, supported on an oval foot; stopper.
1 7/8in (4.8cm) high

$2,500 - 3,500
1750-1790 淺咖啡色料胎刻舖首顯啣環鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Gil and Rosalie Small
Robert Kleiner, The Gil and Rosalie Small Collection, 30 March 2006

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 119

For another compressed beige-colored glass bottle with lion-mask
handles, see Christie’s, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles
from the J & J Collection, Part V, 17 September 2008, lot 71. In our
bottle, the bottle appears to be imitating jade or agate, a conceit at
the eighteenth-century Court, that took pleasure in recreating more
precious materials in the medium of glass.

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