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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« Reply #220 on: December 22, 2017, 02:54:43 pm »

Dear Steven,

     Are you psychic?!
I was just about to write you a personal message to ask you to please post my 'Christmas Bottle'!  Shocked Grin   
AMAZING!

   In Oct. 1989, at the ICSBS Chicago convention that year, I bought this bottle from Clare Chu of Asian Art Studio LA; then she was still Clare Lawrence in London.

   It is Qianlong Imperial Court Tribute, made at the Guangzhou Imperial Workshops, ca. 1736-1795. It is made of gilt copper, inset with facetted green, red and clear paste [glass] gems, representing emeralds, rubies and diamonds.

    There is an almost identical example in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, but theirs does not have the clear gems in the middle of the flower heads [theirs simply has a central red paste gem in each one].

    The stopper is pink Coral with a baroque Pearl finial and a green Jadeite collar.
 
    Merry Christmas!

  and Shabbat Shalom to all,

Joey
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Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970

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