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AN AVENTURINE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE AN OVERLAY SAPPHIRE-BLUE GLASS ‘CHI
QING DYNASTY, 1740-1840 DRAGON’ SNUFF BOTTLE
The bottle has a wide mouth and oval foot, the material of QING DYNASTY, 1770-1850
a reddish-brown colour suffused with ‘goldstone’ specks. The bottle is carved through an aventurine-glass overlay to the
Together with an aventurine snuff dish. transparent, sapphire-blue ground with two young chilong, the
Bottle: 2¡ in. (6.1 cm.) high, glass stopper; original sapphire-blue glass stopper with a bud finial. Together
Dish: 15 in. (3.9 cm.) diam. (2) with a sapphire-blue glass snuff dish.
Bottle: 3æ in. (9.5 cm.) high overall including original glass
HK$10,000-20,000 US$1,300-2,600 cover;
PROVENANCE Dish: 16 (4.3 cm.) diam. (2)
Bottle: Rare Art, New York, 1985
Dish: Acquired in Los Angeles, December 2001 HK$12,000-25,000 US$1,600-3,200
清1740-1840年 清1770-1850年 藍地套金星玻璃螭龍紋帶蓋鼻煙
金星玻璃鼻煙壺（連金星玻璃鼻煙碟） 壺藍（連透明玻璃鼻煙碟）
來源
壺：Rare Art，紐約，1985年
碟：2001年12月購於洛杉磯
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