A RED-SPLASHED BLACK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1700-1800

Details

A RED-SPLASHED BLACK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1700-1800
The opaque black glass bottle is of flattened, rounded form and attractively suffused with orange-red splashes.
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

Provenance

Eric Young Collection; Sotheby's London, 13 October 1987, lot 21.

Exhibited

Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 9.

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Lot Essay

The combination of cinnabar-red fragments rolled into a black ground is extremely unusual. For a black glass snuff bottle with a single splash of cinnabar-red on each side see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 1, Glass, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 136-7, no. 702.

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