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A SILVER FILIGREE AND INSET GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Imperial palace workshops, 1750-1820 This bottle is one of a small group of nearly identical bottles that were
Of compressed ovoid form with a flat lip and flat recessed foot likely produced by either the Beijing or Guangzhou imperial studios.
surrounded by an oval foot rim, the main sides with coiled silver filigree Another from the group is illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham
on a copper ground with a floral design with aubergine, green and and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and
blue enamels, the two narrow sides with a row of seventeen inset George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, no. 1121, where the present bottle is
emerald cut ruby red glass facets, the silver with a gilt wash, with a also recorded.
corresponding stopper with blue enamel surrounding a floral blossom
composed of ruby red and clear glass, the spoon 18 karat gold.
2 3/8in (6cm) high, exclusive of the stopper

$6,000 - 9,000
1750-1820年 御製銀掐絲嵌寶鼻煙壺

Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, Fine Chinese Jades, Works of Art, and Snuff
Bottles, 25 and 26 February 1982, lot 96

來源
紐約蘇富比，1982年2月24-25日，拍品編號96

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