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• Treasury 5, no. 882
  
  雪花地套紅玻璃螭龍紋鼻煙壺
  
  A ruby-red glass overlay 'chi dragons' snuff bottle
  
  Transparent ruby-red, and slightly milky colourless glass, suffused with air bubbles of various sizes, including some elongated ones; with a flat lip and recessed convex foot surrounded by a protruding flattened footrim; carved as a single overlay with a chi dragon amidst formalized clouds on each main side, the narrow sides with mask-and-ring handles
  1730-1770
  Height: 6.32 cm
  Mouth/lip: 0.9/1.27 cm
  Stopper: pearl; coral collar
  
  Condition: small crack running from lip down neck, tiny area of recarving in clouds between chi dragon and mask handle
  
  Provenance:
  Hugh M. Moss Ltd., Hong Kong (1985)
  
  Published:
  JICSBS, Summer 1982, back cover
  Treasury 5, no. 882
  
  The tiny, imperial-style mask-and-ring handles here are typical of the court, and an imperial-glassworks provenance seems by far the most likely.
  
  The unusually wide mouth suggests an early bottle, and the small mask handles with their circular rings endorse this likelihood. The carving of the courtly chi-dragons, exquisitely well controlled and fluent, is achieved with such consummate ease that the carver might have been working in nothing harder than modelling clay.
  
  雪花地套紅玻璃螭龍紋鼻煙壺
  
  透明寶石紅, 微混濁不清無色的玻璃，地彌漫著大小的氣泡,，包括相當大的的拉長的；平唇，凸斂底，突出弄平的圈足；兩正面雕螭龍紋，側面有獸首啣環耳
  1730-1770
  高﹕ 6.32 厘米
  口經/唇經： 0.9/1.27 厘米
  蓋： 珍珠；珊瑚座
  
  狀態敘述： 頸部呈細裂縫，一螭龍、耳之間有微小復雕的地方
  
  來源﹕
  Hugh M. Moss Ltd., Hong Kong (1985)
  
  文獻﹕
  《國際中國鼻煙壺協會的學術期刊》, 1982年夏期，封底
  Treasury 5, 編號882
  
  說明﹕
  本壺的小獸首啣環耳合乎宮廷的典型，大概是製於御用玻璃廠。壺口大，環是圓圓的，證明是早期的製品。本壺工藝精巧，螭龍雕得活靈活現
  
  
  
  
  

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