Lot 336
336
OTHER PROPERTIES
A TRANSPARENT BURGUNDY-RED FACETED GLASS BOTTLE

Details
A TRANSPARENT BURGUNDY-RED FACETED GLASS BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO BEIJING PALACE WORKSHOPS

Of faceted octagonal, moonflask shape, a raised oval panel with four facets on the larger faces and the narrower sides with eight facets, the glass of even, bright tone, stopper

Lot Essay

For an almost identical bottle formerly in the Joseph Baruch Silver Collection see Alexander Brody, Old Wine into Old Bottles, A Collector's Commonplace Book, col. pl. 30. For other examples see Snuff Bottles in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1991, Catalogue, col. pls. 261-263

For a discussion of the Palace Workshops attribution see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, footnote to no. 52