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A CARVED YELLOW GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1720-1820
The bottle is carved with four ‘mask and ring’ handles directly
below the shoulder, and is of a golden-yellow tone.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2597.
‘Imperial’ yellow is among the earliest colors produced in glass
at the Kangxi Imperial Glassworks, from 1696 onwards. Because
of the opacifying agent, early yellow glass bottles do not exhibit
crizzling problems like other colors, such as ruby red. Plain, yellow
glass bottles thus maintained a consistency of tone and texture
throughout the Qing dynasty.
1720-1820年 御製黃玻璃鋪首啣環耳鼻煙壺
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A ‘HAIR’ CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850
The transparent stone is sufused with black rutile “needles.”
2√ in. (7.3 cm.), stopper
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2607.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Another crystal and rutile bottle from the Ruth and Carl Barron
Collection of Fine Chinese Snuf Bottles: Part I, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 16 September 2015, lot 216
1750-1850年 髮晶鼻煙壺
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