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Bottle ID: 00464
GREEN SEA-FOAM, TRANSPARENT SWIRLS
Date: 1730-1780
Height: 61 mm
Glass, of flattened rounded form, with ascending shoulders towards a wide mouth and recessed oval footrim, of bubbly pale milky-green tone with transparent swirls, revealing at the mouth a swirly milk-white layer beneath the clear pale green body.
Imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.
Similar Examples:
Lawrence, Clare. Miniature Masterpieces from the Middle Kingdom - The Monimar Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1996, pp. 130-131, no. 59.163.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles - The Mary and George Bloch Collection, 1998, Vol. 2, Part 1, pp. 118-120, no. 224.
Sotheby's, New York, March 17, 1997, lot 299, Frederick Von Schleinitz Collection.
Provenance:
Hugh Moss [HK] Ltd.
Peter Overstall
Anna Cohen
Unrecorded Hong Kong Dealer, prior to 1972
Exhibited:
Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007
The form of this bottle suggests that it dates from the Qianlong period and was probably made at the Palace glassworks, although the color of the glass in this case appears to be unique. While this form does not resemble any known bottle in jadeite, the color is entirely reminiscent of a small group of watery pale green translucent jadeite bottles, such as the one cited above from the Frederick Von Schleinitz Collection. A series of this general form is known, several in glass with Qianlong reign marks, but more often seen in quartz and hardstone. All of them appear to be of a high quality, well-hollowed, with a concave foot and what is often referred to as a 'short' neck. Since examples occur across a range of materials, characterized by eighteenth century features, it seems probable that all of them could be attributed to the Palace Workshops. It was only with this kind of production, where there were workshops for different materials with a central department dealing with design, that this could possibly have occurred.