Probably Beijing Palace Workshops, 1750–1820

Pink and white sandwich glass with a single overlay of white glass carved with a broad and elegant gift-wrapped ribbon finely incised to imitate the pattern of fabric.

For a blue overlay on a clear crizzled glass bottle with similar decoration in the Alexander Brody collection, see Clare Lawrence, The Alexander Brody Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles (London: 1995), cat. no. 112. An imperial example of transparent celadon-green color from the Denis Low collection is illustrated in Robert Kleiner, Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Denis Low (Singapore: 1999), cat. no. 742. Another imperial yellow bottle from the Gerd Lester collection sold at Sotheby's New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, 17 March 1997, lot 21.

H: 6.2 cm

Provenance 起源:
Robert Hall
Linda F. Crawley

Published 发布: Asiantiques, A Fascination for Miniatures: The Linda F. Crawley Collection of Chinese Snuff (2008), cat. no. 61

Ref. 061-LO551

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