AN IMPORTANT AND RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW GLASS BOTTLE

PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

細節

AN IMPORTANT AND RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW GLASS BOTTLE
ENGRAVED QIANLONG FOUR CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, BEIJING PALACE WORKSHOPS

Of flattened globular shape, the lower body incised with cell diaper between molded petal lappet borders, with a band of confronted archaistic dragons on the shoulder interrupted by a pair of bovine mask handles, all below further diaper bordered by lappet bands on the neck, the details molded and incised in extraordinary detail

來源

Katherine Kitchin
Edmund F. Dwyer Collection, sold Christie's London, October 12, 1987, lot 73

出版

The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Journal, Summer, 1984, front cover Gemological Institute of America Alumni Association, In Focus, Winter 1985/6, front cover The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Journal, Winter, 1987, p.26, fig. 1, in a report on the Dwyer sale
Paula Gasparello, Chinese Art at Auction 1987, p. 180

展覽

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October-November 1984

拍品專文

For an almost identical marked example from the Collection of Edgar S. Wise of California see Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, col. pl.186 and Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, col.pl. 66, for an unmarked example
A similar bottle sold Sotheby's Los Angeles, October 31, 84, lot 51 from the Collection of Alice B. McReynolds, Part 1. Another unmarked bottle from the Russell Mullen Collection, and formerly in the collection of Mrs. John Sheafe Douglas is published by Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, No. 2, p.25, col. fig. 8 and also by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, col. pl. 188