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A WHITE-OVERLAY BLUE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820
The bottle is carved through the semi-translucent white overlay to the semi-translucent
blue ground with the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang) tied with ribbons.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$12,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2764.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
A bottle of similar composition from The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection
of Snuf Bottles: Part III was sold at Christie’s New York, 14 September 2016, lot 452.
For a discussion of bottles of this design, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury
of Chinese Snuf Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 3,
Hong Kong, 2002, p. 607.
1760-1820年 藍地套白玻璃雕八吉祥鼻煙壺
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