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A GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE A SWIRLING GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1830 1750-1850
Of elegant compressed spade shape with rounded shoulders below Of compressed oviform shape, below a short waisted neck and a wide
a tall cylindrical neck, the semi-transclucent body suffused with green mouth, the green body with an unusual combination of feathery swirls
dapples in imitation of jadeite; stopper. in red, yellow, white and gold aventurine, a simple indented base;
1 7/8in (4.7cm) high stopper.
1 7/8in (4.7cm) high
$1,500 - 2,000
$1,800 - 2,200
1750-1830 半透明綠色料胎鼻煙壺
1750-1850 綠地料胎攪色灑金鼻煙壺
Provenance:
Neil and Frances Hunter Robert Kleiner, 20 March 2011 Provenance:
Sotheby’s, New York, 26 February 1983, Lot 204
For a group of sandwiched glass bottles in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, acquired by the Museum of Practical Geology as early as For another paler green swirling glass bottle, see Hugh Moss, Victor
1880, see Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, pl. 67. For two green Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J
glass examples in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Masterpieces of & J Collection, Vol. II, p. 577, no. 344, where the author discusses the
Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, p. 84, no’s. 63 abstract swirling markings and the process to produce this, along with
and 66. Another is illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka the myriad interpretations in the reading of these random markings.
Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George
Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Glass,, pp. 620-621, no. 976.

Sandwiched glass povided bottle makers with an large number of
color variations. The continued blowing and working of the clear and
colored layers of glass, that brought different colors to the surface,
allowed for bottles that imitated a wide range of semi-precious
materials, like jadeite, in this example.

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