Bottle ID: 776

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IMITATING REALGAR WITH DISH

Date: 1730-1800

Height: 58 mm (bottle); 36 mm (diameter of dish)

A glass snuff bottle, of rounded, bulbous form, with a cylindrical neck and with a neatly carved oval footrim, the body of swirling orange and brown tones in imitation of realgar, carved with mock mask and ring handles in tones of red, the neck and footrim with red tones. Together with an accompanying dish in similar color tones.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no.s 264 and 185 
Snuff Bottles of the Ch'ing Dynasty: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, p. 74, no. 82

Provenance:

Sotheby's Hong Kong 
Aprivate German collection 
Hugh Moss Ltd.

 

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