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•324 The unusual combination of colors on this bottle is enhanced by
A FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF the impeccable carving and well-composed design. It belongs to
BOTTLE a group of overlay bottles that exhibit a variety of colors of overlay
1760-1820 spread around the bottle, linked by a common color, as seen
The bottle is carved with a continuous design in translucent here in the green overlay branch and foliage. Another rare bottle
overlays; yellow for the fnger citron, red for the pomegranate, pink from this group, from the Ruth and Carl Barron Collection Part II,
for the peach, and blue for the chrysanthemum blossoms and sash- decorated with a green basket containing four diferently-colored
tied ruyi, all joined by a single leafy branch carved in dark-green blooms on a pink glass ground, was sold at Christie’s New York,
overlay against the opaque white ground. 16 March 2016, lot 471. Two others from this group are illustrated
by M. Hughes in The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuf Bottles from the
2æ in. (7 cm.) high, quartz stopper Princeton University Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, pp. 151-152,
nos. 189-91.
$6,000-8,000
1760-1820年 涅白地套五色玻璃花卉圖鼻煙壺
PROVENANCE

James Hall, 1996.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2317.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Convention, The Barron
Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

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