A fine Imperial inscribed white glass snuff bottle, Imperial Glassworks, Seal Mark and Period of Qianlong. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

5.3 cm., 2 1/8  in. Estimation 180,000 — 220,000 HKD

Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 12th October 1993, lot 30.

Exposition: Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 108.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997.

Litterature: Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 871.

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