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AN OLIVE-BROWN OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE A RARE YELLOW GLASS ‘WAVE-PATTERN’ SNUFF BOTTLE
19th century 18th/19th century
Of flattened rounded form with sloping shoulders, waisted neck and With a flat lip and recessed foot, with continuous ridges encircling the
flat lip, carved through the olive-brown glass with a river landscape flattened globular bottle, with a coral stopper. 6.2cm (2 1/2in) high (2).
depicting a figure and attendant in an open boat, beneath flying
bats and cranes, the other side with a pavilion bordered on the £1,000 - 1,500
right by a gnarly pine tree, an oval seal to one side reads ji xiang CNY9,200 - 14,000
‘auspiciousness’, glass stopper. 5.2cm (2in) high (2). HK$11,000 - 16,000

£1,500 - 2,000 Compare to an identical example illustrated by Moss, Graham and
CNY14,000 - 18,000 Tsang, The Art of The Chinese Snuff Bottle: Vol.2, New York, 1993,
HK$16,000 - 22,000 p.587, no.351. According to the authors, the distinctive design on the
small group of very similar bottles represented by this example were
198 Y Ф ≈ common in the early Imperial Palace Workshops, Beijing, and such
A YELLOW GLASS ‘CHILONG’ SNUFF BOTTLE faceted and formalised designs were probably conceived primarily as
18th/19th century an abstract formal design. See a similar bottle sold in Bonhams Hong
Of flattened rounded form, with a flat lip and wide mouth, the front Kong, 26 May 2014, lot 25.
and back of the bottle carved with a pair of confronted curling chilong
dragons with bifurcated tails, jadeite stopper. 200
4.8cm (1 7/8in) high (2). A PEACOCK BLUE FACETTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
19th century
£1,500 - 2,000 The globular body blown and carved with twelve facets, all below a
CNY14,000 - 18,000 thin cylindrical neck, the glass of a brilliant peacock blue hue, stopper.
HK$16,000 - 22,000 4cm (15/8in) high (2).

A related yellow glass ‘chilong’ snuff bottle, with similar confronted £600 - 800
chilong design, attributed to the Beijing Palace workshops was CNY5,500 - 7,300
published by D.Low in ‘New Additions to the Denis Low Collection of HK$6,600 - 8,800
Snuff Bottles’, Arts of Asia, May-June 2015, p.65.
Provenance
An American Private Collection.
Acquired from Robert Kleiner & Co. Ltd, 1 March, 2012, and thence by
descent.

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