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THREE ENAMELED COPPER SNUFF BOTTLES
20th century
Each of flattened rounded form with waisted neck and flat lip; the first
painted to one face with three naked babies and a lamb, reversed
by three naked babies and two doves, all framed by floral and lappet
borders; the second painted around the body with a puce enamel
landscape between lappet borders; the third painted with two travelers
in a boat on one face, the other with a sage walking along the shore
with mountains in the distance; all three with an oval foot ring enclosing
a four-character Qianlong mark in blue enamel.
2in (5cm) high, the tallest

$2,000 - 3,000
二十世紀 銅胎畫琺琅鼻煙壺三件

Provenance
The babies bottle: Eldred’s auction, Massachusetts, 1991
The puce landscape bottle: Yuan Feng Co., Hong Kong, 1967
The travelers in a boat bottle: Gerry P. Mack Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, 25 October 1997, lot 257

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A RED OVERLAY WHITE GLASS ‘CHILONG’ SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1820
Of rounded rectangular form, rising to a cylindrical neck with flat lip, the
red layer carved as a writhing chilong on each face, flanked by bat-
form handles on the shoulders, all supported on an oval foot ring.
2 1/2in (6.2cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000

1750-1820年 涅白地套紅料螭龍紋鼻煙壺
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Provenance
R. Horner Collection
Eldred’s Auction, Massachusetts, 1985
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