PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1730-1800

細節

**A SANDWICHED PINK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1730-1800
Of flattened spherical form with a waisted neck and concave, elongated oval foot, with a layer of powdered ruby-red glass sandwiched between two layers of transparent and translucent, slightly milky glass, jadeite stopper
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high

來源

Edith Griswold Collection
Sotheby's New York, 1 June 1994, lot 628
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

注意事項

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拍品專文

With sandwiched pink and white glass, the color comes from powdered ruby glass added between two layers of glass, the outer of which has to be either transparent, or at least semi-transparent. Sandwiched glass bottles were a popular staple at the Court during the eighteenth century, where similar sandwiched pink glass was also carved as a series of lotus-petal bottles, such as the example in the J & J Collection, illustrated by Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, vol. 2, no. 358, and the bottle from the Exstein Collection sold in these rooms, 21 March 2002, lot 44. For further discussion on sandwiched glass and its association with the mass production of snuff bottles to be distributed by the Court as gifts for various festivals and birthdays each year, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, vol. 5, Glass, nos. 722-35, where no. 726 is of similar material to the present example. This color of sandwiched glass was extremely popular on a range of plain and carved wares for the Court. This example is probably an Imperial bottle, but such plain wares may also have been made privately at the same time, inhibiting a firm attribution.