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AN IMPERIAL ENAMELLED GLASS ‘PRUNUS, BAMBOO AND ROSE’ SNUFF BOTTLE GUYUE XUAN MARK, PALACE WORKSHOPS, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
Estimate
250,000 - 300,000 HKD
Sold
bidding is closed
Description
- Glass, buffalo bone (spoon)
together with a watercolour illustration by Peter Suart
Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, 3rd October 1980, lot 80.
Collection of Paula J. Hallett.
Sotheby’s New York, 27th June 1986, lot 33.
Collection of Paula J. Hallett.
Sotheby’s New York, 27th June 1986, lot 33.
Exhibited
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1987, cat. no. 16.
Kleine Schätze aus China. Snuff bottles—Sammlung von Mary und George Bloch erstmals in Österreich, Creditanstalt, Vienna, 1993.
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 30.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997.
Kleine Schätze aus China. Snuff bottles—Sammlung von Mary und George Bloch erstmals in Österreich, Creditanstalt, Vienna, 1993.
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 30.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997.
Literature
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 1098.