Atomo Collection

• Glass
  
  
• Flattened circular
  
  
• Transparent blue glass with a few scattered air bubbles of various sizes; with a flat lip and slightly recessed, flat oval foot surrounded by a protruding, flat, oval footrim; with a raised, molded, formalized shou ('longevity') character on each main side.

Period

• 1740 - 1890

Size

• Height cm. 5.0
• Mouth cm. 0.6
• Lip cm. 1.4

Stopper

• Glass

Provenance

• Arthur Gadsby Collection (by repute)
• Sotheby's London Olympia - 11 December 2003 - Lot 470

Exhibited

• 41st Convention I.C.S.B.S., Dublin, October 2009
• Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011

Published

• Journal I.C.S.B.S. - December 1978 - Vol. X num. 4 - P. 22 - Fig. 14
• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 3, p. 8

Comparison

• "A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottle - The Mary and George Bloch Collection" - Moss Graham and Tsang - Vol. 5 - Part 1 - No. 744 - P. 199