THE CHINESE
COLLECTION
Mottled Orange Snuff Bottle
A mottled glass snuff bottle with a quartz
stopper.
B64
Glass, of mottled and striated opaque ochre, green, brown and red colours,
interspersed with colourless transparent areas; the bottle of rounded form with
a flared neck.
Chinese, 1720-1800
Stopper: brown quartz
Provenance: Hugh Moss Ltd, London, 1976
This is one of a large group of glass snuff bottles that are probably of earlier
origins than previously thought, some from the first half of the eighteenth
century. Other examples are in blue, green, brown, yellow and multi-coloured,
some more successful than others. This is an attractive bottle where the
technique has worked well bearing in mind the experimental nature of its
manufacture.
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