Bottle ID: 786

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OPAQUE SEA-GREEN WITH YIJIN ZHAI MARK

Date: 1770-1823

Height: 50 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of pale opaque sea-green tone with two small swirls of dark-red glass to the neck, of flattened, rounded form with a waisted neck with flaring wide mouth and with an oval footrim, the base engraved and highlighted in red enamel with a three-character Yijin Zhai mark (Yongxing, Prince Cheng, 1752-1823). 
Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing 

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no.s 418 and 464

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 621
From the Collection of Emily Byrne Curtis, New York 
Alice McReynolds Collection

Published:

Emily Byrne Curtis. Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China, Burlington, 2004, p. 110, figs. 12.2, 12.3

 

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