AN EMERALD-GREEN AND WHITE 'SANDWICH' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, 1720-1840 An inner layer of translucent

AN EMERALD-GREEN AND WHITE 'SANDWICH' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, 1720-1840 An inner layer of translucent clear glass, streaked with waves of opaque white, is covered by a thick outer layer of transparent emerald-green glass, suffused with small air bubbles. China, 1720-1840A bottle from the same family (see literature comparison below) has recently been described as follows: “This represents one of the most common forms for sandwiched glass bottles from the first half of the Qing dynasty; its narrow sides provide irrefutable evidence that it was blown into a mould. The angle of the body, observed from above, is tapered towards the narrow sides, creating a form which, while easy to achieve in a mould, would not only be unnatural for a freely-blown form, but also more difficult to achieve. […] Bottles of this type appear in many early collections and although they might still have been produced in the late Qing dynasty, it seems more likely that they represent a style of bottle popular mainly during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Several are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, entering the collection in 1901, having previously been in the Museum of Practical Geology. As non-mineral specimens, they were unlikely to have been acquired after 1880 (White 1990, pl. 66, where no. 5 is a type of glass related to this example, and pl. 67).”Shape: Bulbous heart formHollowing: StandardMouth, neck and lip: The neck of elongated cylindric shape, with a slanted lip, a convex top and a narrow mouthBase: Flat ovalStopper: Turquoise-green glass on an ivory platelet with silver (or silvered metal) spoonHeight of the bottle with stopper: 6.3 cmWidth of the mouth: 6 mmWidth of the neck: 16 mmCondition: Good, but with wear and scratches to surface, minor fritting to baseProvenance: British private collectionLiterature comparison: SNUFF BOTTLES FROM THE MARY AND GEORGE BLOCH COLLECTION, Part I. Bonham’s, May 28th 2010, Hong Kong, lot 63. (for an example made in the same technique, but with a different color pallet) Playthings from The Collection of Edward T. Chow. Sotheby’s, May 27th 2014, lot 128. (for an almost identical bottle, but darker in color) Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, London 1987, lot 26 (for a related bottle, but in a green and maroon color pattern).Expertise: Alexander Zacke碧綠夾白紋玻璃鼻煙壺, 1720–1840年內層由帶不透明白行半透明白玻璃成, 套一厚層透明翠綠玻璃, 帶眾多的小氣泡, 中國, 1720–1840 年形狀：厚心形掏膛：標準瓶口、頸、瓶唇： 長圓柱形頸, 斜唇, 凸出頭部, 窄口底足：平橢圓蓋: 牙雕盤帶綠松石色玻璃, 白銀或鑲銀金屬造勺高（帶蓋）：6.3厘米口徑：0.6厘米頸部直徑：1.6厘米狀態敘述：良善, 表面帶些裂痕, 底帶小熔點來源：英國私人舊藏文獻: SNUFF BOTTLES FROM THE MARY AND GEORGE BLOCH COLLECTION, Part I. Bonham’s, 2010 年5月28 日, Hong Kong, 編號63. Playthings from The Collection of Edward T. Chow. Sotheby’s, 2014 年5月27日, 編號128. Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, London 1987, 編號26.