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A BLUE-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE PROVENANCE
1770-1850
Robert Hall, London, 2002.
The bottle is carved through the translucent dark blue overlay to the Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3417.
clear ground with an image of Zhong Kui, The Demon Queller, on
either side, fanked by mask-and-ring handles on the narrow sides EXHIBITED
and above the blue overlay foot ring.
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Convention, The Barron
Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, glass stopper 1770-1850年 透明地套藍玻璃鍾馗圖鼻煙壺

$2,400-3,400

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TWO OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
1780-1900

The frst unusual bottle, 1780-1840, is carved through the
translucent pink overlay to the clear glass ground with two chilong
chasing a pearl. The second, 1800-1900, is carved through the
opaque black overlay to the transparent bubble-sufused ground
with a tethered hawk on one side and a dog tied to a post on the
reverse.

2¬ and 2Ω in. (6.1 and 6.4 cm.) high, glass stoppers (2)

$2,800-3,800

PROVENANCE

First bottle: Margaret Prescott Wise Collection.
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 4954.
Second bottle: Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4964.
1780-1900年 透明地套色玻璃鼻煙壺兩件

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