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Sinuous Chi Dragon

The Collection > Glass > Second Part



  • Glass

  • Rounded rectangular

  • Semi-translucent russet-maroon color snuff bottle, that changes with the light, carved with an elegantly sinuous Chi-dragon. The other side with a stylized Chi-dragon with its young.
    Probably made for the Palace.



Period

  • 1780 - 1850



Size

  • Height cm. 6.2
  • Mouth cm. 1.0
  • Lip cm. 1.7



Stopper

  • Red coral with gilt collar



Provenance

  • Robert Hall



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

  • Robert Hall, "Chinese Snuff Bottles XII", 2007, no. 55 p. 37
  • Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 13, p. 18

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