A BLUE-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1760-1850

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A BLUE-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1760-1850
Of high-shouldered elongated form, the bottle is well carved through the sapphire-blue overlay with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl above crashing waves from which emerges a dragon-carp.
2 15/16 in. (7.4 cm.) high, lapis lazuli stopper with pearl finial, bone spoon

Provenance

Collection of Albert Pyke.
Collection of Russell Mullin.
Kardos Collection; Sotheby's New York, 1 July 1985, lot 22.

Literature

Noëlle King O'Connor, "Water: Changing Imagery in Chinese Art," Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Autumn 1994, p. 8, fig. 9.

Exhibited

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 5.

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Lot Essay

The five-clawed dragon on this bottle suggests an Imperial production. Another bottle, with similar overlay but of slightly more rounded baluster shape and with a four-clawed dragon, is illustrated by M. Hughes in The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, p. 128, no. 149.

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