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QING DYNASTY, 1750-1790
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A GREEN-OVERLAY BLUE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 1750-1790
The green glass is carved through to the blue ground with a praying mantis on a vine on one side and with a cricket on a cabbage beside millet and a lotus leaf on the other, and with cockscomb growing from a rocky outcrop on the two narrow sides.
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) high
QING DYNASTY, 1750-1790
The green glass is carved through to the blue ground with a praying mantis on a vine on one side and with a cricket on a cabbage beside millet and a lotus leaf on the other, and with cockscomb growing from a rocky outcrop on the two narrow sides.
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) high
Provenance
With Hugh M. Moss, Ltd. circa 1972.
Paula J. Hallett.
Sotheby's New York, 27 June 1986, lot 25 (cover).
Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part IV; Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 14.
Property from a Princely Collection.
Paula J. Hallett.
Sotheby's New York, 27 June 1986, lot 25 (cover).
Snuff Bottles from the Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part IV; Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 14.
Property from a Princely Collection.
Literature
R. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, p.83 no. 115.
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 950.
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 950.
Exhibited
London, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, October 1987; later travelled to Vienna, Creditanstalt, Kleine Schätze aus China. Snuff bottles—Sammlung von Mary und George Bloch erstmals in Österreich, May-June 1993.
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