AN IMPERIAL YELLOW GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

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AN IMPERIAL YELLOW GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
QIANLONG YUZHI SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of large rounded shape, carved on each side in medium relief with confronting archaistic chilong dragons contesting a symbol, the narrow sides with a lotus, ruyi collar and a stud, the glass of rich egg-yolk yellow tone, the mark neatly incised within the oval foot -coral stopper

Provenance

The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey.

Lot Essay

A comparable yellow glass bottle also with a yuzhi mark is illustrated by Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 54, no. 64.

(US$45,000-50,000)

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