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Description: Chinese superbly carved red overlay on snowflake glass snuff bottle. Despite the small size, there is a carved complex scene depicting a stag, a deer, a flying and a standing crane, all below pine and peach trees rising from rockworks.
Foot/base: Well shaped protruding foot and convex base
Mark: No marks
Dating: 18th century, probably Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing
Material: Glass
Size: 53 mm high
Stopper: Purple glass, quatrefoil carved stopper and bamboo spoon.
Provenance: Antiquarian market
References: A very similar bottle has been sold by Christies Hong Kong in 2015, see penultimate picture. A further one, but in sapphire blue overlay, is described by Michael C. Hughes in “The Blair Bequest, Chinese snuff bottles in the Princeton University Art Museum”, pg. 128, dated by the Author 1750-1800. He is mentioning there a further one, in red overlay, shown by Robert Kleiner in “Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect: Chinese snuff bottles from the Denis Low Collection”, n. 95. Dated 1740 – 1800 and attributed to Beijing Palace Workshop (see last picture).
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