Descrizione
Description: Chinese glass snuff bottle imitating a pebble of celadon and russet jade. Bottles of this type are rare because of the difficulty of imitating both the celadon and russet type jade in a single piece. Our example is particularly well succeeded as it can fool jade experts if it were not for the swirls at the small base.
Foot/base: Very small concave base
Mark: No marks
Dating: 18th century, probably Imperial, Palace Workshops, Beijing
Material: Glass.
Size: 52 mm long
Stopper: Coral branch with black glass collar and stained wood spoon
Provenance: Ex Carlo Cottarelli Collection, Milano, Italy. Bought directly from him.
References: In the last picture, a glass bottle imitating a russet jade pebble sold by Sotheby’s.
Notes: Chinese glass makers were masters in imitating other materials with glass. This is a perfect example. Jade experts judged this bottle as being authentic jade, which makes it a real masterpiece, like the bottle G8. At the minuscule concave base the typical swirls of blown glasses can be seen, revealing its true nature.
About Carlo Cottarelli collection, see bottle C2 in the Ceramics section.
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