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AN IMITATION JADEITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE A WHITE AND PINK-BLUSH SEMI-TRANSPARENT GLASS
1780-1880 SNUFF BOTTLE
Of rounded spade shape and standing on a shallowly cut oval foot, 1770-1830
the semi-transparent glass with slightly more opaque patches of milky Of flattened rounded spherical shape with short, very slightly waisted
white and green glass to cleverly imitate jadeite. neck and supported on a simple rounded oval foot ring, the glass
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high, stopper with a mixed cloudy mixture of semi-transparent white and pink-blush
glass.
$1,500 - 1,800 2 1/8in (5.4cm) high, stopper

1780-1880年 仿翠玉玻璃鼻煙壺 $1,000 - 1,500

Provenance: 1770-1830年 攪色玻璃鼻煙壺
Alice McReynolds Collection
Provenance:
Sotheby Parke Bernet, January 1977, lot 12
Inman Collection

The pink color on this bottle derives from powdered ruby colored glass
that is added to the inner layer. The pink and white color scheme was
a popular choice for glass bottles produced in the late 18th and early
19th centuries, especially among members of the Imperial Court. For
a bottle from the Marion Mayer Collection with a similar swirling pink
blush glass see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, London, 1989, p.
112, no. 92. For another see Sotheby’s, New York, The Neal W. and
Frances R. Hunter Collection, 15 September 1998, lot 57.

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