A VERY RARE AND FINELY CARVED BLUE OVERLAY WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1730-1800

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A VERY RARE AND FINELY CARVED BLUE OVERLAY WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing, 1730-1800
Of flattened pear form with slightly everted straight neck, fluidly carved through the pale blue overlay with a sinuous horned chilong encircling the bottle, amidst a pattern of widely spaced of raised bosses, stopper
2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) high

Provenance

Hugh M. Moss Ltd., London.

Exhibited

Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993, p. 5.

Lot Essay

This is an unusually fine example of a group of Palace glass overlays produced during the Qianlong period, many of which have wheel-cut reign marks. See, for instance, Chang Lin-sheng, Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, nos. 280 - 291, all with marks, and R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, no. 86, and back cover illustration. See footnote to lot 41 for the meaning of the subject.

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