Page 85 - March 15 2017 The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection

•423

TWO CARVED HARDSTONE SNUFF
BOTTLES
1750-1880

The frst, 1750-1860, is a translucent crystal
bottle of pale smokey-grey tone, carved
on one side with four ducks amidst millet
below the sun through an opaque white
skin, the reverse uncarved. The second, an
amethyst bottle, 1780-1880, is carved on
one side with three dragons, the reverse
with a fsh leaping towards a gate in the
clouds above an emerging dragon, the
semi-translucent stone is of dark purple
color with clear bands.

2º and 2¡ in. (5.7 and 6 cm.) high, glass

and quartz stoppers (2)

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE 423

First bottle: Margaret Prescott Wise 424
Collection. 83
Edgar and Roberta Wise Collection.
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4792.
Second bottle: Robert Hall, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 5043.

1750-1880年 水晶鼻煙壺兩件

•424

TWO CARVED AGATE SNUFF
BOTTLES
1760-1880

The frst bottle, 1760-1860, is carved
through the light amber skin on one side
with a qilin below a bat, the reverse is
undecorated. The second, 1760-1880, is
carved through the areas of reddish-brown
color to the greyish-green ground with the
Eight Horses of Muwang.

2¡ and 2¬ in. (6 and 6.6 cm.) high, glass

stoppers. (2)

$3,000-4,000

PROVENANCE

First bottle: Rachelle R. Holden Collection.
Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York,
1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 1965.
Second bottle: Michael Hughes, New York,
2004.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 3925.

1760-1880年 巧雕瑪瑙鼻煙壺兩件