This is a very fine,
bulbous, circular form Snuff Bottle with a round neck, rounded sloping
shoulders, and flat footing. Made of very dark, black colored
glass. It has cinnabar-red splashes on both sides that
resemble stylized plants. The bottle has very thin walls and is very
light. It has a very smooth and lustrous surface.
A very similar bottle that was part of the Mary and George Block collection (see photo #9), was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, on 26 Mary 2014 for 40,000 HKD (Approx: $5,125). Below are the comments that the auctioneer made of this bottle.
“Glass
with inclusions of other colours at the surface was among the easiest to produce and seems
to have been, not unnaturally, a popular standard from the early eighteenth
century to the end of the Qing dynasty. To achieve these effects, the
glassblower collects a gather of one colour on the blow-iron and, during the
manipulation process, lays cold fragments of another colour on the marvering
surface, simply rolling the gather across them. This can then be re-heated to
completely blend them together, and whatever pattern is created can then be
further manipulated as the gather is blown, allowing for the surface design to
be twisted and stretched as required. In this case, cinnabar- or lacquer-red
glass has been rolled deeply into the gather and integrated by blowing. The single
splash of cinnabar-red on each main side results in what appears to be a true
opaque black where it meets the green ground. It is possible that one way of
achieving opaque black was by mixing the two colours.”
For
other examples with cinnabar-red splashes in a dark green ground, possibly from
the same workshop, see Lawrence 1995, no. 122, which features the same
distinctive, streaky marking in the red, and Christie’s, New York, 21 March
2000, lot 108.
The outstanding bottle is in remarkable preserved condition.
Bottle Measurements
Bottle
Measurements
Height:
2.03 inches (5.2cm), not including the stopper
Width:
1.68 inches (4.3cm)
Thickness:
0.94 inches (2.3cm)
Weight: 0.8 ounces
A similar bottle, that was part of the Rachelle H. Holden Collection, was sold at Christies, on 22 March 2022 for $21,420. See photo #10.
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