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A THREE-COLOR OVERLAY BUBBLE-SUFFUSED 'CHILONG'
BOTTLE
Attributed to the Palace workshops, Beijing, 1750-1800
Of large rounded globular shape and carved through overlays of
transparent ruby-red and green to alternate sides, each depicting two
coiling, ascending and descending chilong, one holding a lingzhi spray,
the underside with a transparent blue single smaller chilong forming
the foot, the clear ground with small white inclusions and air-bubbles
forming the backdrop, the cylindrical neck with some yellow-beige
swirling inclusions and a medium mouth opening.
2 3/4in (7cm) high, stopper
$4,500 - 7,000

1750-1800 霏雪地套三色料刻螭龍鼻煙壺一件
或爲宮廷作坊，北京
Provenance:
Janos Szekeres, Connecticut
Sotheby's New York, 5 June 1987, The Collection of Janos Szekeres,
Part II, lot 49 (illustrated with a different stopper).
Robert Hall, London
來源：
Janos Szekeres，康乃狄克
蘇富比，紐約，1987年6月5日，《The Collection of Janos
Szekeres》，第二部分，編號49（相片中不同蓋）
Robert Hall，倫敦

For a similar though more slender form overlay glass bottle, see Robert
Kleiner, Precious Playthings: Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the
Mack Collection, Arizona, 2000, p. 48, no. 32, that is attributed to the
Beijing Palace workshops and where the author discusses related
multi-color overlay glass 'dragon' bottles.

Another larger example also carved with green, red and a blue chilong,
and with the addition of yellow, is illustrated by Robert Hall, Serendipity,
Chinese Snuff Bottles XVI, London, undated, no. 83 and attributed to
the Beijing Palace glass workshops.

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