Lot 496
496
OTHER PROPERTIES
AN UNUSUAL SMALL GOLD-SPLASHED GREEN AND TURQUOISE GLASS BOTTLE

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AN UNUSUAL SMALL GOLD-SPLASHED GREEN AND TURQUOISE GLASS BOTTLE
18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO THE BEIJING PALACE WORKSHOPS

Of slender tear-drop shape, the interior of the bottle of turquoise glass with a layer of gold flecks covered with a transparent pea-green overlay, shallow concave foot, stopper

Lot Essay

For a discussion of this type of bottle, blown into a two-part mold with some coloring and flecks introduced into a central layer between the inner and outer layer, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art From the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 113, no. 59, where the author illustrates a more usual, larger, ovoid bottle