A CLEAR AMBER GLASS BOTTLE

1750-1795, ATTRIBUTED TO THE IMPERIAL PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING

細節

A CLEAR AMBER GLASS BOTTLE
1750-1795, attributed to the Imperial Palace Workshops, Beijing
Of mallow shape, delicately molded and carved with six petals with folded edges to each side centered by a swirling stamen, stopper
26in. (5.2cm.) high

來源

Bob C. Stevens Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 26 March 1982, lot 34

出版

Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, Tokyo, 1976, pp. 64-65, no. 167
Rachelle R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 64-65, no. 19

拍品專文

The mallow is associated with the successful scholar. It also symbolizes long life and honor.

For similar bottles see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 106; Humphrey K.F. Hui and Christopher C.H. Siu, Hidden Treasures of the Dragon, Hong Kong, 1991, p. 61, fig. 111; and Robert W.L. Kleiner, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 150, no. 95.

For a bottle with mallow flowers to the main faces but plain narrow sides with lion-mask fixed-ring handles see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 225, no. 144