Description: Chinese Clear Glass Snuff Bottle
Probably Imperial glassworks, Beijing, 18th century
The elongated slender body set on a flat oval foot, the body multi-faceted, pink tourmaline stopper.
Height 2 3/8 inches.
Provenance:
The Mary and George Bloch Collection, illustrated in
The Treasury of Chinese snuff bottles
Volume 5, part 2,
Glass by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang
Robert Hall (1988)
Published:
JICSBS, Summer 1988p.1.
JICSBS Winter 1988, p.1
British Museum, Chinese snuff bottles in the collection of Mary and George Bloch, no. 130
Exhibited:
British Museum, London, June 1995.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, July-November 1997
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