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AN ENAMELED OPAQUE-COFFEE-GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE For a bottle of very similar type, see Michael C. Hughes, The Chester
1770-1820, Yangzhou, of Guyuexuan type Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp.
The rounded bottle delicately enameled in blue, pink and yellow 250-251, no.195. The bottle is of identical color glass, and with an
enamels in a continuous scene around the body with clusters of identical band of decoration at the neck and the same use of bright
mallow, chrysanthemum, pinks, aster, bamboo and lotus beneath a enamels for the body decoration. The most unusual feature of our
floral band on the neck, the oval foot formed by a ring of transparent bottle and one seldom seen in this group is the use of a green glass
green glass, the base painted with blue floral scrolling; stopper. foot ring.
2 1/8in (5.5cm) high
$3,000 - 4,000

1770-1820 揚州工 不透明咖啡色料胎飾花卉鼻煙壺 古月軒風格

Provenance:
Sotheby’s, New York, 26 November 1991, lot 85

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 49

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