A magnificent splashed glass snuff bottle. Beijing Palace Workshops, Qianlong

A magnificent splashed glass snuff bottle. Beijing Palace Workshops, Qianlong

Of slightly flattened pear-shaped form rising to a cylindrical neck and resting on a short straight foot, the clear glass decorated with a profusion of brilliant splashes in varying tones of pink, blue and white, stopper. 6.3cm (2½in) high. (2). Estimate: HK$60,000 - 80,000, $7,700 - 10,000. Unsold

Provenance: Jin Hing and Company, Los Angeles, 1984
Neal W. and Frances R. Hunter Collection
Sotheby's New York, 15 September 1998, lot 66, illustrated on the front cover.

Note: A blue-splashed bottle of similar style and quality in the George and Mary Bloch collection, incised with four-character Qianlong mark on the base, is illustrated by Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, London, 1995, p.176.

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings, 21 May 2009. Island Shangri-La Hong Kong Hotel, Admiralty, Hong Kong www.bonhams.com