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A MINIATURE FACETED
TRANSPARENT RED GLASS SNUFF
BOTTLE
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING,
1720-1820
The globular body has unusual ‘honeycomb’
faceting.

13 in. (3.3 cm.) high, glass stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 5335.

1720-1820年
御製袖珍透明紅玻璃磨花鼻煙壺

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372 TWO GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
1750-1900

The frst translucent white bottle, probably
Imperial glassworks, Beijing, 1760-1900,
is decorated with applied maroon, blue
and green panels. The second transparent
amber-tone glass bottle, Imperial
Glassworks, Beijing, 1750-1850, is carved
on both sides with concave panels and with
ovoid panels on the narrow sides and base.
An unusual opaque white overlay is visible
at the edges of the panels.

2º and 2¿ in. (4.5 and 5.4 cm.) high, (2)
tourmaline and shell stoppers

$2,200-3,200

PROVENANCE

First bottle: Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong
Kong, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4916.
Second bottle: Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 5277.

LITERATURE

Second bottle: Robert Hall, Serendipity,
Chinese Snuf Bottles XVI, London, 2011.
no. 41.

1750-1900年 玻璃鼻煙壺兩件

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