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A RARE TRANSPARENT GOLDEN-YELLOW GLASS 'MALLOW' 來源：
BOTTLE Julie及Al Stempel收藏
1730-1770 蘇富比，紐約，1979年10月11日，拍品號41
Of flattened pear shape, each main face carved in relief with a five- Gerd Lester收藏，1986年
petalled mallow flowerhead with incised veins and cross-hatched 蘇富比，香港，瑪麗及莊智博珍藏，第十部分，2015年5月311日，
central floret, the narrow sides with delicately carved fixed-ring lion- 拍品號93
mask handles, supported on a simple rounded oval foot ring.
2 1/8in (5.5cm) high, stopper 展覽：
香港藝術館，1977年，中國鼻煙壺，編號34
$6,000 - 10,000 香港藝術館，1994年，《盈寸纖妍﹕瑪麗及佐治伯樂鼻煙壺珍藏》，
編號96
1730-1770 透明金黃料胎刻金葵花鼻煙壺一件 新加坡國立藝術館，新加坡，1994-1995年
Provenance: 出版：
Julie and Al Stempel Collection 《中國鼻煙壺》，香港藝術館，1977年，第33頁，編號34
Sotheby New York, 11th October 1979, lot 41 Robert Kleiner，楊伯達，及Clarence F. Shangraw，《盈寸纖妍﹕瑪
Gerd Lester Collection, 1986 麗及佐治伯樂鼻煙壺珍藏》，香港藝術舘，1994年，編號96
Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part X, 莫士撝, Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
31 May 2015, lot 93 Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷五，香港，2002
年，編號842
Exhibited:
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, Chinese Snuff Bottles, no. 34 For a very similar transparent yellow glass bottle with formalized
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature mallow flower decoration, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka
Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, no. 96 Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection,
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 1994-5 Vol. II, New York, 1993, p. 596, no. 357, where the authors discuss
the anomaly of five and six-petal mallow flower heads. They also note
Published: the well-known Marian Mayer Collection, that was replete with such
Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, p. 33, no. 34 examples, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, Hong Kong, 1989,
Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang, and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff pp.106-110, nos. 86-90.
Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch,
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, no. 96 Illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection,
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Part 2, vol. 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 842, the authors note that this
Hong Kong, 2002, no. 842 distinctive color of glass may be the 'golden amber color' mentioned
in the Palace records of 1727 or the 'golden yellow' of 1733 and that
judging from surviving works of art, the Qianlong period seems to be
the the most likely one for its popular use, even if it were produced
earlier.
See also similar bottle sold Christie's Hong Kong, 7 October 2014,
lot 13.

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