IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1720-1840

Details

A TRANSPARENT RED GLASS FACETED SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1720-1840
The transparent ruby-red glass bottle is of octagonal shape and is carved on either side with a raised faceted panel.
2 1⁄16 in. (5.1 cm.) high, gilt bronze stopper

Provenance

Bob C. Stevens Collection.
The Bob C. Stevens Collection of Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part II; Sotheby’s New York, 26 March 1982, lot 20.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.

Literature

Honolulu Advertiser, 5 November 1981.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, p. 376, no. 173.

Exhibited

Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Bob C. Stevens Collection, 22-31 October 1978, cat. no. 4.

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Lot Essay

For another similar bottle, see The Blanche B. Exstein Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, Christie's New York, 21 March 2002, lot 23. For a related shape, but enameled at the Palace workshops during the first decade of the Qianlong period, see H. Moss, V. Graham and K. B. Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, New York, 1993, vol. 1, no. 185.

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