A ‘REALGAR’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, QING DYNASTY, 1720-1840
The bottle is of ruby-red, orange-yellow and orange-brown tones with some slight green colouring. Together with a ‘realgar’ glass snuff dish.
Bottle: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm.) high, glass stopper; Dish: 1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Dish: C.K. Liang, Jade House, Hong Kong, October 1986
For a discussion on ‘realgar’ glass, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol 5, Glass, where its likely Imperial origins are discussed.
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