A white-overlay pink glass snuff bottle, 1770-1850
Lot 452. A white-overlay pink glass snuff bottle, 1770-1850. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016.
The bottle is carved through the milky-white overlay to the opaque pink ground with the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang) tied with ribbons. 2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) high, shell stopper
Provenance: Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2001.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3302.
Note: The color combination of pink and white creates a dramatic palette which would seem "like a marriage made in heaven for any carver of glass overlays," as discussed by Moss, Graham, Tsang, in A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 3, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 607.
Christie's. The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part III, 14 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza