Snuff Bottle - Aventurine glass 金星玻璃 - China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

A very nice blue aventurine-glass snuffbottle with golden flecks. The stopper also made of aventurine-glass but fully infused with gold speckles. The twisted (original!) spoon with small carved ring which moves up and down the spiral.

Sotheby's wrote about the snuff bottle:

This bottle represents a group in which fragments of aventurine glass are rolled into the surface of a contrasting color. For more on aventurine glass, see Sale 4, lot 59. The Chinese terms for this material are jinxing boli 金星玻璃 ('golden-star glass') and wendulina 溫都里那 (or 文都里那) .

Nothing about this bottle would preclude a date from the first half of the eighteenth century. The simple form could have been made at any time, but the blue glass here is as suffused with air bubbles as any piece known of this color and also contains some impurities, as if the type might still have been at an experimental stage when it was produced.

The bottle in the current lot also consist of blue suffused glass, so they may well hail from the same workshop and/or period.

Provenance: From a private collection.

References:
See similar snuff bottles at Christie's (USD 2,016. 00) , Sotheby's (HKD 15,000) and Rob Michiels:

https: //onlineonly. christies. com/s/rivers-mountains-far-world-important-chinese-snuff-bottles-rachelle-r/aventurine-splashed-blue-glass-snuff-bottle-61/142649

https: //www. sothebys. com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/snuff-bottles-from-mary-george-bloch-collection-part-iv-hk0524/lot. 60. html

https: //www. rm-auctions. com/en/asian-arts-feb-2020/16645-two-chinese-sapphire-blue-aventurine-glass-snuff-bottles-18-19th-c

Condition:
In good condition with one small chip of the rim and the (original!) spoon detached.

Dimensions:
H6. 2 x W4. 3 cm

Shipping method: The item is securely packed and shipped with insurance without stand or doll house vase.