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8051 8052

8051 8053
An inside painted glass snuff bottle A carved shadow agate snuff bottle
Ye family, dated 1925 19th century
Of compressed baluster form, rising to a cylindrical neck, flat rim and Of compressed form, with a flat lip, on a raised ovoid foot rim, the
small mouth and raised on a recessed oval foot, elegantly painted with stone carved with birds among lotuses, with speckled brown inclusions
scholars and ladies in an interior setting and outdoors on a narrow bridge highlighting the details.
by a lake, inscribed on both sides dated yichou year, painted in Yangzhou, 2 3/8in (5.7cm) high.
signed Ye Zhongsan. $2,000 - 3,000
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500 8054
A large and elaborately carved sea root bottle
8052 1860-1940
A shadow agate snuff bottle Of rounded form, with a flat lip, a leiwen border carved to the neck, and
1780-1850 an oval foot rim, the body deeply carved with a continuous scene of eight
Of rounded rectangular form, with a concave lip and wide mouth, figures in a landscape with arching pine trees and clouds at the shoulder.
supported by an oval foot rim, the chocolate brown inclusions appearing 3 1/4in (8.2cm) high
as a pair of bats beneath a cloud-like plume that is emerging from a $3,000 - 5,000
double gourd.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high Sea root, (Jp. Umimatsu, lit. ‘sea pine’) is sometimes described as
$3,000 - 5,000 “black coral.” By definition, sea root is a hardened colony of keratinous
antipatharian marine organisms, and distinct from coral and resembling
wood by featuring concentric rings.

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