The Kardos Realgar
The Collection > Glass > Second Part
- 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
Size
- Height cm. 5.7
- Mouth cm. 0.5
- Lip cm. 1.7
Stopper
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