TABATIERE EN VERRE JAUNE CHINE, XIXE SIECLE

le bouchon en verre jaune et serpentine

Tabatières Chinoises, Trésors des Collections Privées Françaises, Paris, 29 novembre – 17 décembre 2000, n°57

Two other plain yellow bottles are illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5 part 2,Glass, p. 133, no. 698 and 699. The author explain that although yellow glass is imperial and imperial glassworks remains the most likely place were it was manufactured, it could also have ordered from any glassworks.