A CARVED REALGAR GLASS BOTTLE

1770-1850

細節

A CARVED REALGAR GLASS BOTTLE
1770-1850
Of high-shouldered tapering form, carved on either side through the bright red and yellow overlay with a strutting rooster, all against a mottled ochre and mustard-yellow ground, stopper
2 7/16in. (6.2cm.) high

來源

Gerd Lester Collection, New York.
Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong.

展覽

Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993, p. 5.

拍品專文

Plain realgar glass snuff bottles were made in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century, a large proportion of them apparently at the court to be distributed as gifts. By the mid-Qing period, there must have been many in circulation, and it began to occur to carvers to decorate them, since in most cases they were uncarved overlays, with a surface layer of brighter color. A bottle such as this, with obvious mid-Qing carving, may predate the carved decoration by several decades.
For a similar, carved realgar glass bottle made at about the same time, see B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 192.