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An aventurine and blue glass double-gourd snuff bottle A rare green overlay aventurine glass ‘cricket’ snuff bottle
Early 19th century
Carved in relief through the opaque blue glass and aventurine-decorated 19th century
around the double-gourd body with two bats in flight amidst ruyi-head
cloud scrolls, hardstone stopper. The rounded square body supported on an oval recessed foot, the
6.8cm (2 2/3in) high (2).
£2,000 - 3,000 flattened side finely and vividly carved in low relief through the iridescent
HK$24,000 - 35,000 CNY19,000 - 28,000
green layer to the shimmering aventurine ground to depict a cricket
十九世紀早期 寶藍套金星玻璃葫蘆式鼻煙壺
standing above several leafy branches issuing from a vase, aventurine

stopper.
5.9cm (2 1/3in) high (2).
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$59,000 - 94,000 CNY47,000 - 75,000

Provenance: A European private collection and thence by descent 十九世紀 金星玻璃蟈蟈紋鼻煙壺

來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去 Provenance: A European private collection and thence by descent

來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去

The combination of green overlay on aventurine glass is rare and
unusual. A related example decorated with two crabs, dated to the
mid-Qing period, can be seen in the Qing Court collection in the Palace
Museum, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum, Hong Kong, 2003, pl.124. Another example was sold in our
New York rooms, 22 March 2011, lot 132.

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