PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1740-1800

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A FINE AND RARE PINK SANDWICHED GLASS 'LOTUS' SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1740-1800
The tapering bottle, of meiping shape, is finely carved through the white and variously shaded pink layers as a lotus flower with overlapping petals rising from a leaf with down-turned edges that encircles the lower body, and is borne on the slender stem that forms the circular foot ring, and issues from the center of the base.
2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm.) high, metal stopper, wood stand

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, before July 1963.

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Lot Essay

This bottle belongs to a well-known group of sandwiched pink glass bottles in the form of lotus flowers, probably made at the Court for distribution as gifts. Most of the bottles from this group tend to be of flattened, ovoid form, and the elegant meiping form of the present bottle appears to be very rare. For other sandwiched pink glass bottles of this type, but of flattened, ovoid form, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 2, Glass, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 324-26, no. 818; 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 from the Hildegard Schonfeld Collection sold at Christie's New York, 21 March 2013, lot 1097.

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