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IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1736-1795
Details
A RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1736-1795
The bottle is carved through the transparent, deep-red overlay to the densely bubble-suffused, semi-transparent ground on one side with a toad seated on a large lotus leaf beneath the shade of a larger leaf. The other side is decorated with a tortoise and a snake, its body looping around to form the foot.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm) high, mother-of-pearl stopper
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1736-1795
The bottle is carved through the transparent, deep-red overlay to the densely bubble-suffused, semi-transparent ground on one side with a toad seated on a large lotus leaf beneath the shade of a larger leaf. The other side is decorated with a tortoise and a snake, its body looping around to form the foot.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm) high, mother-of-pearl stopper
Provenance
SB Collection, England.
Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5275.
Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5275.
Literature
R. Hall, The SB Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles XV, London, 2011, no. 115.