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A ‘WINE YELLOW’ GLASS DOUBLE-GOURD A PINK GLASS DOUBLE-GOURD FORM SNUFF
FORM SNUFF BOTTLE BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, QING PROBABLY IMPERIAL, QING DYNASTY, 1760-1900
DYNASTY, 1740-1850 The translucent pink glass bottle is of double-gourd form with
The transparent, pale-yellow glass bottle is of compressed a flat lip and protruding, flat, circular base. Together with a pink
double-gourd form. Together with a streaked yellow and ochre glass heart-shaped snuff dish.
glass double-gourd form snuff dish. Bottle: 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, aquamarine stopper;
Bottle: 2¿ in. (5.5 cm.) high, mother-of-pearl stopper; Dish: 1 4 in. (3.9 cm.) long (2)
Dish: 2¿ in. (5.4 cm.) long (2)
HK$12,000-28,000 US$1,600-3,600
HK$12,000-28,000 US$1,600-3,600
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE Dish: Sold at Christie's New York, 1 October 2008, lot 314 (part)
Dish: The Blanche B. Exstein Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff
Bottles, sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2002, lot 263 (part)
清 1760-1900 年 粉紅玻璃葫蘆式鼻煙壺
The double gourd was a popular Imperial form throughout the
eighteenth century and into the mid-Qing period, being symbolic with （連粉紅玻璃心形鼻煙碟）
its generalised auspicious meaning of the continuation of the family
line, elegant and functional. The colour here is unusual, and is probably 來源
a paler version of the colour known as ‘wine yellow’ which appears in
the records of the Imperial glassworks from as early as 1753. 碟：紐約佳士得，2008 年 10 月 1 日，拍品 314 號（部分）

清 1740-1850 年
御製透明酒黃色玻璃葫蘆式鼻煙壺
（連黃玻璃葫蘆式鼻煙碟）

來源
碟：Blanche B. Exstein 珍藏，紐約佳士得，2002 年 3 月 21 日，
拍品 263 號（其中之一）

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