Atomo Collection

• Glass
  
  
• Compressed elongated ovoid form
  
  
• Transparent, pale, sapphire-blue glass with scattered, small air-bubbles; of compressed, elongated ovoid form with a slightly waisted, cylindrical neck, flat lip and recessed, convex oval foot surrounded by a protruding, flat, oval footrim; the narrow sides carved with mask and ring handles.
  Probably Imperial glassworks, Beijing.

Period

• 1750 - 1820

Size

• Height cm. 7.0
• Mouth cm. 0.65
• Lip cm. 1.50

Stopper

• Tourmaline, carved with a coiled Chi Dragon; glass collar

Provenance

• Hanhai, Beijing, 12 Jan 2004, lot 2171
• Hugh Moss

Exhibited

• Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011