A ‘REALGAR’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, QING DYNASTY, 1720-1840
The bottle is carved through a red overlay on an orange ground with a mask-and-ring handle on each side. Together with a ‘realgar’ glass snuff dish.
Bottle: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm.) high, glass stopper; Dish: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm.) diam.
来源
Bottle: C.K. Liang, Jade House, Hong Kong, October 1996 Dish: C.K. Liang, Jade House, Hong Kong, October 1986
For a discussion on ‘realgar’ glass, see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol 5, Glass, where its likely Imperial origins are discussed.