Bottle ID: 00418

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GREEN, MILKY LIME, MINIATURE

Date: 1736-1795

Height: 36 mm

Glass, of small flattened rounded form with a concave oval foot, and wide mouth, of semi-transparent pale celadon tone.

Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection nos. 417 and 419
Sotheby's, New York, March 17, 1997, lot 299, Property of The Mid-Western Collection.
Brody, Alexander. Old Wine into Old Bottles: A Collector's Commonplace Book, 1993, pp. 88-89, p. 155, no. 88.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection, 1993, Vol. II, pp. 561-565, nos. 334 and 335.
Kleiner, Robert.  Chinese Snuff Bottles in The Collection of Mary and George Bloch, 1995, p. 204, no. 125.

Provenance:

Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.
Universal Antiques, Taipei, Taiwan, April 1999

Exhibited:

Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007

This particular color, with its distinctive opalescent milky-green tones, seems to have been a Court development of the Qianlong period resembling the porcelain glaze referred to as celadon.  There are two similar glass bottles in the J & J Collection, one with a highly Imperial incised Qianlong mark, indicating that it was made to be a 'personal plaything' for the Qianlong Emperor and a third with a Qianlong nianzhi mark in the Bloch Collection.  The detailing and form of this bottle live up to these other examples in every way, with impeccable shape and superbly finished foot and neck.  Its miniature size is a further indication of Palace Workshops production.

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