Lot 345
345
AN UNUSUAL PALE GOLDEN-YELLOW OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
This lot is offered without reserve.
AN UNUSUAL PALE GOLDEN-YELLOW OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1735-1800

Details
AN UNUSUAL PALE GOLDEN-YELLOW OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1735-1800
The bottle is carved through the layer of pale golden-yellow on either side with a stylized mallow flower with curled edges. The narrow sides are carved with mask and ring handles, all on a milky, bubble-suffused ground.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
The Arthur Gadsby Collection, Hong Kong, 1978.
Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, Part III, Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 47.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2007.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4605.
Literature
Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, Vol. 2, New York/Tokyo, 1993 no. 367.
Exhibited
New York, Christie's, 1993.
Singapore, Empress Place Museum, 1994.
Frankfurt, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, 1996-1997.
London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1997.
Florida, Naples Museum of Art, 2002.
Oregon, Portland Museum of Art, 2002.
Taipei, National Museum of History, 2002.
New York, International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, 2003.
Beijing, Poly Art Museum, 2003.
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

A number of bottles with this design are known, including several in different colors of glass in the Marian Mayer Collection, illustrated by R. Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, London, 1989, nos. 86-90 and 93; one illustrated by H. Hui et. al., Hidden Treasures of the Dragon, Hong Kong, 1991, p. 61, fig. 111; another illustrated by Robert Kleiner, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 95; and a white glass example in the collection of Denis Low illustrated by R. Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect, Singapore, 1999, p. 101, no. 83.

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