A RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

POSSIBLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1750-1820

Details

A RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
POSSIBLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1750-1820
The transparent ruby-red overlay is carved through to the transparent, bubble-suffused ground with a continuous scene of a scholar riding a donkey over a bridge, followed by a young attendant, with pine trees and bamboo framing the scene and further bamboo and a bridge on the other side.
2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm.) high, lapis stopper with glass finial

Provenance

Robert Hall, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4816

Literature

R. Hall, The Boston Snuff Party, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIII, London, 2008, no. 36.

Exhibited

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Robert Hall, September 2008.

Lot Essay

For a related red-overlay snuff bottle on a bubble-suffused ground, showing similar treatment of the bamboo and prunus branches that frame the scene, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 5, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 446, no. 880.

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