G32 A plain ruby red glass snuff bottle

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Description

Description:  Chinese glass snuff bottle of ruby red color and flat squared form.

Foot/base:  Well shaped round foot and convex base

Mark:  No marks

Dating:  The overall shape, the shaping of base and foot and finish are typical of 18th Century bottles

Material:  Glass.

Size:  64 mm high

Stopper:  Green jade and bone spoon

Provenance:  Antiquarian market

References:

Notes:  The ruby red color, obtained with colloidal gold, has been introduced at Palace Glassworks by the German Jesuit missionaries.

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