Description
Description: Chinese sapphire blue glass overlay snuff bottle decorated with bronze vessels, books and antiques on wooden stands, a motif known as Bogutu (博古图) featuring a collection of scholarly objects and antiques. The earliest painting of this subject was from the Northern Song Dynasty when Emperor Huizhong of Song (宋徽宗) instructed his Imperial Art Academy to paint a series of thirty paintings to record his collection of antiques consisting of bronzes, ceramics, jades, and stones. On one side of the bottle there is a bronze tripod floor lamp, with a qilin coiled around the stem, and a dragon head at the top, which is holding a hanging lamp with the mouth. Because of the very high-quality carving, this is possibly a Palace Workshop bottle.
Foot/base: Protruded foot and convex base
Mark:
Dating: 18th century, possibly Palace Workshop
Material: Glass.
Size: 69 mm high
Stopper: Coral stopper with green glass collar and stained ivory spoon
Provenance: Antiquarian market
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