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PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1740-1800
Details
A RED-OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1740-1800
The bottle is carved through the transparent red overlay to the slightly opaque, bubble-suffused ground with a continuous scene of waves crashing against rocks on the narrow sides, with a pavilion on one side, a ruyi head on the reverse, and cranes in flight above.
2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1740-1800
The bottle is carved through the transparent red overlay to the slightly opaque, bubble-suffused ground with a continuous scene of waves crashing against rocks on the narrow sides, with a pavilion on one side, a ruyi head on the reverse, and cranes in flight above.
2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Edward T. Chow Collection; Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 May 1994, lot 1261.
Robert Hall, London, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2708.
Robert Hall, London, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2708.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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