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           A SMOKY CRYSTAL AND A CRIZZLED CLEAR GLASS SNUFF   AN ETCHED CLEAR GLASS ‘MEIPING’ BOTTLE
           BOTTLE                                            The bottle 1750-1850, the etching probably later
           1800-1900 and 1740-1850                           Of tapering baluster shape, meiping, with high rounded shoulders and
           The first of small rounded rectangular shape and even-toned smoky   waisted cylindrical neck, with an etched meandering lotus-like floral
           quartz material; the other of slightly taller proportions and with dense   leafy scroll between key-pattern above the foot and simple leaf lappets
           minute ‘crizzling’ to the matrix of the glass.    on the shoulder, the neck interior buffed to a misty finish, the glass with
           2 3/16in (5.3cm) and 2 11/16in (6.7cm) high       light crizzling throughout.
                                                             2 5/16in (5.7cm) high
           $600 - 900
                                                             $1,000 - 1,500
           1800-1900年 煙晶鼻煙壺
           1740-1850年 玻璃鼻煙壺                                  1750-1850年 梅瓶形蝕刻花卉紋鼻煙壺
                                                             蝕刻或為後加

                                                             Provenance:
                                                             Galeria Studio, Buenos Aires Oct 1990

                                                             Illustrated:
                                                             ICSBS Journal Cover Summer, 1991

                                                             Arts of Asia Sept-Oct 1991, p. 136

                                                             ICSBS Journal Winter 1990, p. 6 fig 23

                                                             Catalog New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show 1998, p. 23, fig 2.










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