A SANDWICHED BLACK-SPLASHED GREEN GLASS BOTTLE

1730-1820

Details

A SANDWICHED BLACK-SPLASHED GREEN GLASS BOTTLE
1730-1820
Of high-shouldered tapering form, the mottled green glass attractively suffused with black dots, stopper
2¼in. (5.5cm.) high

Provenance

Hugh M. Moss Ltd., London.

Exhibited

Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993, p. 9.

Lot Essay

For two similar green sandwiched glass bottles still in the Imperial Collection, see Masterpieces of Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, pp. 84 and 85, nos. 63 and 65. And for a group of green sandwiched glass bottles in The Victoria and Albert Museum, acquired by the Museum of Practical Geology by 1880, see H. White, Snuff Bottles from China, London, 1992, pl. 67.

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