Live Auction 1156THE BLANCHE B. EXSTEIN COLLECTION OF CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES
A SANDWICHED BROWN AND GOLD-SPLASHED CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE
Lot 13

A SANDWICHED BROWN AND GOLD-SPLASHED CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE

1730-1840

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A SANDWICHED BROWN AND GOLD-SPLASHED CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE
1730-1840
Of flattened, rounded form, the slightly misty clear glass splashed with radiating droplets of purplish-brown and gold, stopper
1 7/8in. (4.7cm. ) high

Sotheby's, Honolulu, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part I, 7 November 1981, lot 42.
Sotheby's, London, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Eric Young, Part I, 3 March 1987, lot 28.

Specialist note

For a rather similar bottle still in the Imperial Collection, see Masterpieces of Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, p. 83, no. 60.