Lot 53
  • 53

AN EMERALD-GREEN AND RUSSET-BROWN ‘JADEITE-IMITATION’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 HKD
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Description

  • glass

Provenance

Collection of Alice B. McReynolds.
Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 20th October 1991, lot 1143 (part lot).

Exhibited

Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang, and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 98.
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 1994-1995.

Literature

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 976.

Condition

Tiny insignificant chip to the inner lip, otherwise good condition.
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