Bottle ID: 837

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IMITATING REALGAR

Date: 1730-1780

Height: 60 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of rounded, bulbous form, with a cylindrical neck and a neatly carved oval footrim, the body with swirling tones of red, orange, brown and yellow with streaks of green forming an abstract design, in imitation of realgar.
Possibly imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing 

 

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art
Jin Hing Co., CA.
Agatha Aronson Collection

 

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