AN AVENTURINE-FLECKED TRANSPARENT PALE-BLUE GLASS BOTTLE

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AN AVENTURINE-FLECKED TRANSPARENT PALE-BLUE GLASS BOTTLE
1760-1850

Of spade shape, the metallic aventurine flecks of silver and gold tone and suffused throughout the body, though more dense in the upper half, all sandwiched between two layers of transparent pale-blue glass, some darker inclusions and air bubbles
2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) high, stopper

拍品专文

For a very similar bottle with a pale green cast see Chinese Snuff Bottles and Jade Carvings from the Douglas, Guam and Other Collections, The Chinese Porcelain Company, Catalogue, New York, 1992, p. 7, no. 6

For a slightly darker blue glass bottle see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, Catalogue, London, 1991, p. 81, no. 80

For a discussion of a group of gold-flecked 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, previously cited in the footnote to lot 14