Bottle ID: 00272

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AQUAMARINE IMITATION

Date: 1750-1800

Height: 64 mm

Glass, of slender cylindrical form, with shoulders sloping to an everted mouth, and with a neatly carved footrim, carved with vertical lobed convex panels with raised vertical bosses running from a raised lingzhi fungus-head band around the shoulders, the foot carved with a band of petal lappets, of a pale blue tone in imitation of aquamarine.

Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection nos. 160 and 717
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, 1993, Vol. II, p. 585, no. 350.
Hui, Humphrey K. F. and Christopher C. H. Sin. An Imperial Qing Tradition - Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Humphrey K. F. Hui and Christopher C. H. Sin, 1994, p. 113, no. 138.

Provenance:

Clare Lawrence Ltd.
Alexander Brody
Clare Lawrence Ltd.
The Exstein Collection

Published:

Lawrence, Clare. The Alexander Brody Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1995, p. 68, no. 101.
Brody, Alexander. Old Wine into Old Bottles: A Collector's Commonplace Book, 1993, pp. 40 and 149.
Lawrence, Clare. 1993 Chinese Snuff Bottle Engagement Diary,

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