Atomo Collection

• Glass
  
  
• Ovoid shape
  
  
• Carved realgar glass snuff bottle. Red overlay on the two sides decorates the snuff bottle with blossoms, branches and a ruyi scepter.

Period

• 18th - 19th century

Size

• Height cm. 5.7
• Mouth cm. 0.5
• Lip cm. 1.7

Stopper

• Green glass

Provenance

• Arthur Loveless Collection
• The Kardos Collection, no. 489
• Sotheby's New York, auction 01 July 1985, lot n. 49
• Charles V Swain collection
• Christie's Paris - 21 November 2008 - Lot no. 34

Exhibited

• Vancouver Museum, 1977
• 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

• Giornale ICSBS - Summer 1984 - Vol XVI number 2 - P. 12 - Fig. 13
• Giornale ICSBS - Autumn 1985 - Vol XVII number 3 - P. 136 - Column 3 - Row 23
• Giornale ICSBS - Winter 2008 - Vol XXXX number 3 - P. 43 - Fig. 3
• Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 18, p. 23
• Journal ICSBS - Autumn 2010 - Vol XLII number 2 - P. 29 - Fig. 1

Comparison

• Beaussant Lefèvre auction, Paris, Drouot - 18 November 2005 - Lot no. 107