PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ELLEN C. GOLDSCHMIDT A MINIATURE OPAQUE CINNABAR GLASS 'JASPER' VASE AND A WATER POTQing dynasty, 19th century The mottled cinnabar and black glass baluster vase of meiping shape with everted short neck and simple spreading foot and slightly concave foot, the glass imitating jasper or cornelian agate; together with a pink and green slip-decorated small opaque mottled gray-white glass water pot, overlay pressed with leaf design and the neck formed from a coil. The vase: 3in (7.6cm) high; the water pot: 2in (5cm) across (2). 清 十九世紀 袖珍硃砂玻璃攪色觀音尊及灰白套雙色玻璃水盂 Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd., October 1988 (cinnabar glass vase) The Goldschmidt Collection, 1988 to the present. 來源： 硃砂玻璃攪色觀音尊：Spink & Son Ltd.古董行，1988年10月 戈爾德施密特收藏（The Ellen C. Goldschmidt Collection），1988年至今 For a snuff bottle of the same material where the authors explain the probable inspiration for this type of striated glass as carnelian agate or jasper rather than the more-often attributed realgar, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection , Vol. 5, Part 1, Glass, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 150, no. 709.