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A TRANSPARENT RUBY-RED GLASS 'CHILONG AND SHOU- Two similar bottles, a transparent cranberry-pink and a transparent
CHARACTER' BOTTLE emerald-green example are illustrated by Robert Hall, The Maxwell
1780-1820 Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 14-15 and
Of flattened oval shape, the attractive ruby-red glass thinning in tone 24-25, nos. 20 and 40 respectively.
toward the center of the body and extremely well carved in low, soft
relief with two descending dragons on each main face coiling inward The matrix of the glass is widely suffused with tiny air bubbles and
towards a shou character, their furcated tails forming scrolls above, the fades in places to a paler color. The wide mouth here is typical of early
narrow sides of the bottle with rounded horizontal ribs corresponding imperial glass snuff bottles, and a date from the Qianlong period is
to the various segments of the body. the most likely one. In certain arts, however, including those of the
2 3/16in (5.6cm) high, stopper lapidary, the highest standards appear to have been maintained to the
end of the reign, and momentum carried high-quality production into
$6,000 - 8,000 the nineteenth century. Thus, it is conceivable that a bottle of this kind
might have been made to Qianlong standards into the Jiaqing reign.
1780-1820 透明寶石紅料刻淺浮雕壽龍鼻煙壺一件
The high overall quality, with thoughtful detailing of the simple formalized
Provenance: dragons in a manner typical of the finest examples of Qianlong archaism,
My Humble House, Taipei, 1994 the clever integration of the side profile and design, represents a level of
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995 aesthetic sophistication typical of the Qianlong period.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part X,
31 May 2015, lot 208 For another example of this form and decoration in ruby-red, see
Sotheby's New York, 15 September 1998, lot 53.
Exhibited:
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 26
Published:
Christopher Sin, Humphrey Hui, and Po Ming Kwong, eds., A
Congregation of Snuff Bottle Connoisseurs: An Exhibition of Chinese
Snuff Bottles, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 26
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Part 2,
Hong Kong, 2002, no. 823

來源：
寒舍，臺北，1994年
莫士撝，香港，1995年
蘇富比，香港，瑪麗及莊智博珍藏，第十部分，2015年5月31日，拍
品號208

展覽：
中國鼻烟壺，徐氏藝術館，香港，1996年，編號26
出版：
冼祖謙，許建勳、鄺溥銘，《壺趣集慶 - 中國鼻煙壺展》，徐氏藝術
館，香港，1996年，目錄，編號26
莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷五，香港，2002
年，編號823

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