清十八世紀初 / 十九世紀初 白夾粉紅料「蓮瓣」鼻煙壺

of transparent, pale pink glass sandwiched between two layers of semi-transparent, milky-white glass, suffused with air bubbles of various sizes, some elongated, with a flat lip and a slightly recessed foot surrounded by a protruding rounded footrim, both made up of elements of the design, carved with a continuous design of formalized lotus petals set in a lotus leaf forming the foot of the bottle, its stem curling round to form the footrim; the tourmaline stopper with a gilt-silver collar

紐約佳士得1977年11月3日，編號264
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《Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch at the Galleries of Sydney L. Moss, Ltd.》，Sydney L. Moss Ltd，倫敦，1987年，編號98
《Les plus belles collections privées de Hong-Kong, Galeries》，Lafayette，巴黎，1990年，編號6
《Kleine Schätze aus China: Snuff bottles-Sammlung von Mary und George Bloch》，維也納，1993年，編號6及封面

Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷5，香港，2002年，編號818

Apart from a small flake to the inner footrim, measuring approx. 0.5 cm, the overall condition is quite good. The actual colour of the snuff bottle is a little bit paler and softer compared to the catalogue illustration.
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The present bottle belongs to a fairly large series where the entire bottle is rendered as a formalized lotus flower resting on a leaf. The popularity of these bottles at court, together with the numbers known to have been produced, suggests the likelihood that they were made at the imperial glassworks. For an extensive list of related bottles see the commentary for this bottle in Moss et al., 1996-2009, vol. 5, no. 818.