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A SANDWICHED PINK GLASS 'LOTUS' SNUFF BOTTLE
A SANDWICHED PINK GLASS 'LOTUS' SNUFF BOTTLE

PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1740-1800

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A SANDWICHED PINK GLASS 'LOTUS' SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1740-1800
Of tapering ovoid form and supported on an oval foot, the bottle is carved through the semi-opaque white layer to the pale pink ground with rows of overlapping petals issuing from a curled lotus leaf. The petals and leaf are finely incised to simulate veining.
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high, rose quartz stopper
来源
Jade House, Hong Kong, 1986.
出版
Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Baltimore, Winter 1996, front cover.
展览
Taipei Gallery, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1-29 October 1993, p. 5.
拍场告示
Please note that these is an error in the Chinese description of this lot. The dating of this lot is Probably Imperial Glassworks, and not Imperial Glassworks as cited in the catalogue.

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This bottle belongs to the well-known group of sandwiched pink glass bottles in the form of lotus flowers, probably made at the Court for distribution as gifts. They vary in form, from elongated ovoid as seen here, to shorter, spherical shapes, all finely carved with distinct details, suggesting the glass carvers were working from a general design idea, rather than a specific model. This is one of the most imposing of all the forms, with its elegant, elongated shape and the impressive use of the coloring of the layers of glass, leaving every petal in paler relief and the tips of the leaf around the base paler than the underside they overlap.

A related elongated oval bottle is illustrated by Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 2, Glass, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 324-6, no. 818. For an example of rounded form see Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Vol. II, New York, 1993, p. 597, no. 358, and the example in the Blanche B. Exstein Collection, sold in these rooms, 21 March 2002, lot 29