A group of three snuff bottles, Qing dynasty, 18th - 19th century | 清十八至十九世紀 瓷胎鋪首鼻煙壺、水晶鋪首鼻煙壺 及 攪料仿玉髓鼻煙壺一組三件

Swirled glass bottle:
Robert Kleiner, 'The Tuyet Nguyet Collection of Snuff Bottles and Saucers', Arts of Asia, November-December 1998, no. 25.

攪料仿玉髓鼻煙壺：
Robert Kleiner，〈雪月藏鼻煙壺及鼻煙碟〉，《亞洲藝術》，1998年11/12月，編號25

The Qing love affair with glass extended to its use in imitating other materials and the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection has several interesting examples, such as the swirled glass bottle in the present lot, which imitates chalcedony with brown splashes and dates to the mid-Qing period 1780-1850, when the snuff bottle was beginning to move away from its Imperial roots to seek a wider acceptance.

For other imitation examples in the collection, see lot 1029 a white nephrite-imitation glass bottle and lot 1055 an aragonite-imitation glass bottle.