A Black and Aventurine Mottled Clear Glass Bottle

1780-1880

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A Black and Aventurine Mottled Clear Glass Bottle
1780-1880
Of spade shape on a flat oval base, the clear glass densely mottled with an aventurine-splashed dark black-brown glass within the matrix, stopper
2in. (5.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar bottle is illustrated by Au Hang, The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 40-41, no. 42. For a discussion of aventurine-splashed bottles, see Yang Boda, General introduction to Qing Glass, Quarterly of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1983:84

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