Page 112 - Carl Barron Snuff Bottle Collection, CHRISTIE's Spet 12 2018

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A CARVED PINK AND WHITE TRANSLUCENT GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1720-1800
The bottle is of milky-white and pink color and has concave sides.
The narrow sides are carved as sections of bamboo.
2¡ in. (8.5 cm.) high, jadeite and tourmaline-inset metal stopper
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
Dennis G. Crow, Los Angeles, California, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1585.
The colors of the current bottle, sandwiched pink and white glass, come from powdered
ruby glass added between two layers of glass, the outer of which has to be either
transparent, or at least semi-transparent. Sandwiched glass bottles were a popular staple
at the Court during the eighteenth century, and this color was particularly popular.
1720-1800年 御製粉紅玻璃磨花鼻煙壺

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