A SELECTION OF SNUFF BOTTLES FROM THE MARJORIE DILLON LONSDALE COLLECTION (LOTS 2401-2428) A long-time resident of Sarasota, Florida, Marjorie Lonsdale (1920-2005) was an avid snuff bottle collector as early as the 1960s, when snuff bottle collecting was a growing field of interest in the United States. One of the first members of the Chinese Snuff Bottle Society of America, she kept a meticulous card catalogue of her collection as suggested by Lilla S. Perry in her seminal work of 1960, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Adventures & Studies of a Collector. In later years, she became an active member of The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society and attended many conventions with her husband, Bill. In 1977, when members were encouraged to bring bottles to display at the annual convention and the participants voted on their favorites, she is noted in the corresponding journal to have won the Stone category (other than jade), for a 'sea-spray', or 'net' amethyst bottle with mask handles and a tourmaline stopper. Her enthusiasm and eye is evident across her carefully curated collection, which ranges from imperial glass examples of the 18th century, to fine jade and jadeite bottles, to interesting inside-painted examples from the turn of the 20th century. PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MONTANA

1760-1820年海蓝宝石光素鼻烟壶

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1760-1820年海蓝宝石光素鼻烟壶

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Marjorie Dillon Lonsdale (1920-2005) Collection, Sarasota, Florida.

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While the finest aquamarine gemstones are of flawless blue color, pieces large enough to be fashioned into a snuff bottle are very rarely flawless. The majority of aquamarine snuff bottles date from the late Qing/20th century, but the material was popular at Court during the second half of the 18th century and into the early 19th century. This bottle is part of a small group of plain, thick-walled Imperial snuff bottles in the material from that period. The thickness of the walls deliberately reveals the depth of the color of the stone. The rounded, rectangular shape was a standard form for imperial jade, coral, agate and other stone bottles.

The use of aquamarine for snuff bottles greatly increased after 1759, when the area where it was mined in Xinjiang, was conquered by the Chinese. Large quantities of the stone were sent as tributes to the Court, with the best stones reserved for imperial use.
For a range of examples in aquamarine and a discussion of semi-precious stone bottles see H. Moss, V. Graham and K.B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 3, Stones Other than Jade and Quartz, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 108-21, nos. 408-12.

A similar aquamarine snuff bottle from the Hildegard Schonfeld Collection was sold at Christie's New York, 21 March 2013, lot 1008.

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