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A RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
POSSIBLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1750-1820

The transparent ruby-red overlay is carved through to the transparent,
bubble-suffused ground with a continuous scene of a scholar riding a
donkey over a bridge, followed by a young attendant, with pine trees
and bamboo framing the scene and further bamboo and a bridge on
the other side.
2√ in. (7.2 cm.) high, lapis stopper with glass fnial

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

Robert Hall, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4816

EXHIBITED:

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention,
Robert Hall, September 2008.

LITERATURE:

R. Hall, The Boston Snuff Party, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIII, London,
2008, no. 36.

For a related red-overlay snuff bottle on a bubble-suffused ground, showing
similar treatment of the bamboo and prunus branches that frame the
scene, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the
Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, p.
446, no. 880.

1750-1820年 雪霏地套紅玻璃「尋梅」圖鼻煙壺

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