Bottle ID: 834

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TURQUOISE, OPALESCENT

Date: 1780-1850

Height: 56 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of flattened squared form, with a cylindrical neck and wide mouth, and with a neatly carved oval footrim, the wide mouth with an inner layer of milky glass that continues to the shoulders and upper body adding an attractive semi-opaque turquoise green-blue color that fades to a clear transparent tone in the lower two-thirds of the body.

 

Provenance:

Bonhams, New York, March 19, 2024, lot 427
Barry Friedman, New York
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part X, 5.31.2015, lot 58
The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Hong Kong, 1984-2015 
Robert Hall, London 1984

Published:

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 1, Hong Kong 2002, p. 194, no. 708

 

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