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1730-1780
Details
A GREEN-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1780
The bottle is carved through the transparent green overlay to the opaque white ground on either side with a coiled chi dragon with sinuous limbs and curling tail.
2 3/8 in. (5.8 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
1730-1780
The bottle is carved through the transparent green overlay to the opaque white ground on either side with a coiled chi dragon with sinuous limbs and curling tail.
2 3/8 in. (5.8 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
Provenance
Gerry P. Mack Collection; Sotheby's New York, 25 October 1997, lot 8.
Belfont Collection, Hong Kong, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2538.
Belfont Collection, Hong Kong, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2538.
Exhibited
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.