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A RARE MOLDED AND INCISED FOLDED-LEAF MEDALLION For another example of a monochrome glass bottle with a formalized
RUBY RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE flower-head design on each main face, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff
1750-1850 Bottles II, London, 1989, p. 106, no. 86, where the author notes that
Of flattened rounded shape with cylindrical neck and short oval foot this might represent a mallow flower. The folded center of our flower-
with flat foot rim, each main face with a molded low-relief large four- head forms a cross, and for some time it was believed that this might
bladed leaf with the tips folded to the center to form an octagonal have Jesuit connotations. However this theory appears to have been
medallion, the center with four further in-turned blade tips that mirror discarded.
the larger exterior leaves that surround it, the center with a finely
hatched ground, the center resembling a Christian cross, either by
happenstance or design.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high, stopper
$4,000 - 6,000

1750-1850年 紅料模刻團花紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Robert Hall, London, Oct 1987

Illustrated:
Journal back cover winter 1986
Arts of Asia, Nov Dec 1988, p. 126, no. 22

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