Snuff Bottles from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection Part II
Snuff Bottles from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection Part II
Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection 雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品
Four white glass snuff bottles, Qing dynasty, 19th century | 清十九世紀 白料鼻煙壺一組四件
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Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection
Four white glass snuff bottles,
Qing dynasty, 19th century
雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品
清十九世紀 白料鼻煙壺一組四件
hardstone and jadeite stoppers, the tallest bottle with an apocryphal guyue xuan mark
5.5 to 6.6 cm
Aragonite-imitation bottle (2nd bottle to the left):
Robert Kleiner, 'The Tuyet Nguyet Collection of Snuff Bottles and Saucers', Arts of Asia, November-December 1998, no. 23.
仿霰石鼻煙壺（圖左二）：
Robert Kleiner，〈雪月藏鼻煙壺及鼻煙碟〉，《亞洲藝術》，1998年11/12月，編號23
Robert Kleiner, 'The Tuyet Nguyet Collection of Snuff Bottles and Saucers', Arts of Asia, November-December 1998, no. 23.
仿霰石鼻煙壺（圖左二）：
Robert Kleiner，〈雪月藏鼻煙壺及鼻煙碟〉，《亞洲藝術》，1998年11/12月，編號23
The Qing love affair with glass extended to its use in imitating other materials, such as one of the bottles in the present lot, which imitates aragonite, a variety of white marble with its characteristic parallel bands.
The Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection includes several other interesting imitation examples: lot 1084 a chalcedony-imitation glass bottle, and lot 1029 a white nephrite-imitation. These bottles all date 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.
The Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection includes several other interesting imitation examples: lot 1084 a chalcedony-imitation glass bottle, and lot 1029 a white nephrite-imitation. These bottles all date 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.