A RED-OVERLAY ‘REALGAR’ GLASS ‘EIGHT HORSES’ SNUFF BOTTLE
A RED-OVERLAY ‘REALGAR’ GLASS ‘EIGHT HORSES’ SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, QING DYNASTY, 1770-1850

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A RED-OVERLAY ‘REALGAR’ GLASS ‘EIGHT HORSES’ SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, QING DYNASTY, 1770-1850
The opaque, yellow-streaked orange glass bottle is carved through a ruby-red glass overlay with the Eight Horses of Mu Wang. Together with a realgar glass snuff dish.

Bottle: 2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) high, stained jadeite stopper;
Dish: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Bottle:
The Constance Margaret Goldney Collection
S. Marchant & Son, London, June 2009
Dish: C. K. Liang Jade House, Hong Kong, October 1986

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