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PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820
Details
A SIX-COLOR-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820
The bottle is carved through the ruby-red, jade-green, sapphire-blue, turquoise, pink and yellow overlay, to the transparent, bubble-suffused ground on either side with a green stem bearing three single-color peony blooms, and with a yellow bird on one side and a dark blue insect in flight on the other.
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, glass stopper
PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820
The bottle is carved through the ruby-red, jade-green, sapphire-blue, turquoise, pink and yellow overlay, to the transparent, bubble-suffused ground on either side with a green stem bearing three single-color peony blooms, and with a yellow bird on one side and a dark blue insect in flight on the other.
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Robert Hall, London, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2501.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2501.
Exhibited
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.