Bottle ID: 800

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TRANSLUCENT GREEN, THREE ABUNDANCES

Date: 1750-1820

Height: 65 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of flattened oval form with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck and with a neatly carved oval footrim, the glass of translucent turquoise and green tones, carved in relief with a continuous design of two bats amid the “Three Abundances’, the peach, the pomegranate and the finger citron. 
Possibly imperial, attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing.

Similar Examples:

Crane no. 401
Kleiner, Robert. Chinese Snuff Bottles - The White Wings Collection, 1997, p. 72, no. 41

Provenance:

Christie’s New York, March 24, 2022, Lot 861 
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York 
Sotheby’s New York, March 15, 1984, lot 57 
The Mei Ling Collection, (Dr. Bons, The Netherlands) 
Sotheby’s New York, October 3, 1980, lot 15 
Galia Baylin Collection

Published:

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World – The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 84-85, no. 29

 

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