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A PALE OPAQUE GREEN GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE The Yijin Zhai mark indicates that it was once in the collection of
Yijin zhai mark Yongxing (Prince Cheng, 1752-1823), the eleventh son of the Qianlong
Of flattened round shape with slender waisted neck and slightly emperor. Yongxing was well-known for his calligraphic skills and for his
everted rim standing on a short, slightly spreading, thin oval foot ring, collection of early calligraphy of which his most prized object was the
the mouth with a wide opening and thin rim edge, the opaque glass of Eastern Jin Dynasty calligrapher Lu Ji’s (4th century) Pingfu tie, from
an even pale sea-green with a two small swirls of dark iron-red glass to whence the Yijin Zhai (The Jin Bequest Studio) derived its name. As a
the neck, with an engraved and red-highlighted three-character mark connoisseur of antiquity, Prince Cheng surely would have appreciated
in a line to the foot. this snuff bottle’s reference to the past. For more on Yongxing and Yijin
1 15/16in (5cm) high, stopper Zhai, see Humphrey Hui, The Imperial Connection, pp. 37-39, no 92.

$2,500 - 3,500
綠玻璃鼻煙壺 《詒晉齋》款

Provenance:
Alice McReynolds Collection

Published:
Emily Byrne Curtis, Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of
China, Burlington, 2004, p. 110, fig. 12.2, 12.3

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