拍品专文
For a not dissimilar lapis lazuli bottle see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, p. 454, no. 297
For a discussion of a group of bottles see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York and Tokyo, 1993, vol. II, p. 553, where the authors note, "Blue glass flecked with gold, which may have been an attempt to imitate lapis lazuli, was already being produced in the Palace workshops by 1705. In that year the Kangxi Emperor made an Imperial tour to Suzhou and presented the governor, Song Luo (1634-1713), with seventeen items of glass, presumably made in the recently established and clearly successful Palace workshops (Yang Boda, 'A Brief Account of Qing Dynasty Glass', Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty: The Robert H. Clague Collection, Catalogue, Phoenix, 1987, p. 89), among which was blue glass and blue glass flecked with gold"
See, also, Moss et al., op. cit., p. 572, no. 340 for a discussion of so-called 'goldstone' glass. Yang Boda, op. cit., p. 79, records that, in the fifth year of the Qianlong period (1740), two Jesuits joined the court at Beijing to assist Pierre d'Incarville and Gabriel-Leonard de Broussard in the glass making and that, in the following year, they produced aventurine glass and translucent blue glass
The earliest reference in the West to aChinese blue glass snuff bottle with goldstone inclusions is to be found in Christie's sale of the collection of Robert Fortune in London, May 13, 1857
For a discussion of a group of bottles see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, New York and Tokyo, 1993, vol. II, p. 553, where the authors note, "Blue glass flecked with gold, which may have been an attempt to imitate lapis lazuli, was already being produced in the Palace workshops by 1705. In that year the Kangxi Emperor made an Imperial tour to Suzhou and presented the governor, Song Luo (1634-1713), with seventeen items of glass, presumably made in the recently established and clearly successful Palace workshops (Yang Boda, 'A Brief Account of Qing Dynasty Glass', Chinese Glass of the Qing Dynasty: The Robert H. Clague Collection, Catalogue, Phoenix, 1987, p. 89), among which was blue glass and blue glass flecked with gold"
See, also, Moss et al., op. cit., p. 572, no. 340 for a discussion of so-called 'goldstone' glass. Yang Boda, op. cit., p. 79, records that, in the fifth year of the Qianlong period (1740), two Jesuits joined the court at Beijing to assist Pierre d'Incarville and Gabriel-Leonard de Broussard in the glass making and that, in the following year, they produced aventurine glass and translucent blue glass
The earliest reference in the West to aChinese blue glass snuff bottle with goldstone inclusions is to be found in Christie's sale of the collection of Robert Fortune in London, May 13, 1857