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Ť557 It is rare to find a combination of sandwiched glass (where a
A RARE WHITE-OVERLAY SANDWICHED PINK GLASS color is contained between transparent or translucent layers) and
SNUFF BOTTLE overlay. In this case the opaque white glass overlay has been cut
POSSIBLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1770-1840 away to reveal the speckled effects of sandwiching ground-up
The bottle is carved through the semi-opaque white overlay to the flakes of ruby-red glass between layers of white. The selection
mottled pink and white ground with a continuous scene of a farmer of the subject is masterful, with the white landscape containing
walking on a rocky path towards his home, beneath pine branches a farmer returning to his mountain home cut through the outer
and clouds. opaque white glass layer revealing the sandwiched pink layer and
suggesting the background of filtered light from a pink and red
3º in. (8.3 cm.) high, shell stopper setting sun.

$6,000-8,000 A bottle of a similar color palette and technique, but in the form
of a cabbage, was sold at Christie’s New York, The Ruth and Carl
PROVENANCE Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II, 16 March
2016, lot 491.
Bentley Collection, England.
Sotheby’s London, 23 March 1988, lot 106. 䍆邘㍔㍩邘蔶∇墈悕⒢՞艴⥘聖㌉
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4957.

LITERATURE

Asian Art Studio, The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles,
2008, p. 27.

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