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A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1880
The bottle is carved through the translucent red overlay to the
opaque white ground on each side with three butterfies in a row
above an arrangement of insects and fowering branches that
form a character, fu (luck), the narrow sides each with three further
butterfies.

2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, jade stopper

$1,800-2,800

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1996.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2054.

LITERATURE

Symposium on Chinese Snuf Bottles from the Collection of Carl
F. Barron, Presented at the Annual Convention of the International
Chinese Snuf Bottle Association, Boston, privately printed 2008,
p. 22.
1800-1880年 涅白地套紅玻璃福字紋鼻煙壺

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•348 PROVENANCE
A CARVED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
OFFICIAL SCHOOL, 1760-1850 Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, 2012.
One side is carved in relief using the dark brown marking in the Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
stone with a fgure standing on a lotus leaf while holding a lotus no. 5286.
leaf in one hand and a box in the other, the reverse with a bird in
fight above rounded hills suggested by the banded white markings 1760-1850年 瑪瑙巧雕和合圖鼻煙壺
in the stone.

2¿ in. (5.5 cm.) high, agate stopper

$2,400-3,400

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38 THE RUTH AND CARL BARRON COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES: PART IV