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Winter Collection 2025

Pavilion is thrilled to announce the arrival of our Winter Collection for 2025, comprising twenty-eight carefully selected snuff-bottles, each with their own unique aesthetic qualities and histories. The Winter Collection represents a shift in focus towards Imperial glass bottles this season, although not the exclusive content of our new collection, the material of glass provides here the core of the group. Alongside glass bottles, we are also exhibiting interesting jade, hardstone, jasper and Japanese examples of cloisonné and ceramic, all with a vibrancy of colour and creativity in a fitting celebration of the Chinese New Year.

Highlights of our Winter 2025 collection include ‘Amethyst Blush’, a bottle made at the Imperial glassworks between 1720 and 1820, comprising pale amethyst glass, striking in the pinkish hue of the glass itself and almost miniature in scale, the facetted octagonal form a standard motif of Imperial design. ‘Bitter Fruit’, formerly of the Bloch Collection represents another striking accomplishment in glass craft, with its single overlay of three separately coloured types of glass. The butterflies and bitter gourds are a combination rarely featured in snuff bottles, as is the use of a very pale-yellow glass here, which has allowed the artist to emphasize the red flowing line around the bottle. Another remarkable bottle, ‘Palace Yellow’ of compressed pear shape and made in translucent yellow glass, is typical of the colours produced very early on in the Imperial workshops, the wide mouth was also a frequent feature of early glass bottles.

For more information on Qing glass snuff-bottle production you can find the link to our previously published research in the Pavilion Archives here, where author Hugh Moss explores the subject in depth with an abundance of visual examples. We hope that you enjoy the collection !

 
Red Cliff
Red Cliff
Alexander Whittaker27 January 2025
Emerald Panels
Emerald Panels
Alexander Whittaker22 January 2025
Amethyst Blush
Amethyst Blush
Alexander Whittaker21 January 2025
Wired in Silver
Wired in Silver
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Copper Needles
Copper Needles
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Palace Sardonyx
Palace Sardonyx
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Big Basket
Big Basket
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Ancient Remains
Ancient Remains
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Orange Bee-hive
Orange Bee-hive
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Volcanic Bamboo Grove
Volcanic Bamboo Grove
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Palace Plenty
Palace Plenty
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Flamed in Japan
Flamed in Japan
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Refined Formality
Refined Formality
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Birthday Jasper
Birthday Jasper
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Less is More
Less is More
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Water-bats
Water-bats
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Crowning Glory
Crowning Glory
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Murano Sprinkling
Murano Sprinkling
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Sunset Realgar
Sunset Realgar
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Aquamarine Future
Aquamarine Future
Alexander Whittaker20 January 2025
Chi Rings
Chi Rings
Alexander Whittaker13 January 2025
Peach of a Snuff Dish
Peach of a Snuff Dish
Alexander Whittaker13 January 2025
Flying Feng
Flying Feng
Alexander Whittaker13 January 2025
Falling for Magpies
Falling for Magpies
Alexander Whittaker13 January 2025
Bitter Fruit
Bitter Fruit
Alexander Whittaker13 January 2025
Palace Yellow
Palace Yellow
Alexander Whittaker13 January 2025
White World
White World
Alexander Whittaker13 January 2025
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