Aventurine Blue

Imperial glassworks, Beijing, 1730-1800
Height: 6.81 cm
Mouth/lip: .95/1.73 cm
Stopper: pearl; gilt-silver collar

Provenance:
Bonham’s, San Francisco, 23 August 2010, lot 6163
Hugh Moss HK (Ltd)

Published:
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles.  Part One. Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts. 

 

Translucent, variegated, pale cobalt blue, and aventurine glass; with a wide mouth, flat lip and protruding, concave, oval foot; the narrow sides carved with mask and ring handles, the variegated blue ground with inclusions of fragments of aventurine glass.

Alexander Whittaker