Atomo Collection

• Glass
  
  
• Flattened pear
  
  
• Green overlay on opaque white glass snuff bottle, carved with five-clawed dragon design on both sides. It belongs to Star-Tailed Dragons Group.
  
  Probably imperial, attributed to Palace workshops.

Period

• 1770 - 1780

Size

• Height cm. 5.7
• Mouth cm. 1.1
• Lip cm. 1.3

Stopper

• Tourmaline with vinyl black ring

Provenance

• Jade House - Hong Kong

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

• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 10, p. 15

Comparison

• Bob Stevens: "The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottle" - no. 195
• "A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottle - The Mary and George Bloch Collection", Vol 5 - Glass - no. 1001