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A GREEN GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE A FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE SNUFF A PUDDINGSTONE SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1850 BOTTLE 1740-1900
Of compressed pear form with a flat lip and 1780-1850 Of flattened globular form, with a waisted
a waisted neck, with a rounded oval foot rim Of upright rectangular form, reasonably well neck, and a concave lip, the foot a concave
surrounding a convex foot, each side carved hollowed, the lip slightly convex, supported divot, the interior of the bottle very well
with a formalized flower, the emerald green by a rounded oval foot rim, the stone with a hollowed, the stone with striking garnet and
glass suffused with gold flecks. natural cellular pattern highlighted by russet grey markings.
1 3/4in (4.5cm) high splashes. 1 7/8in (4.8cm) high
2 3/4in (6.9cm) high
US$3,000 - 4,000 US$4,000 - 6,000
US$3,000 - 5,000
Provenance Provenance
Robert Hall, 19 October 1989 Provenance Hugh Moss Ltd., 4 November 1993
Marian Mayer Collection, #637 Robert Hall, 30 May 1996 Sotheby’s Park Bernet, New York 25 June
1982, Fine and important snuff bottles from
Published 1780-1850 石灰岩化石鼻煙壺 the collection of Bob C. Stevens, part III, lot
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, London, 131
1989, no 189, p.89, also illustrated on the
cover Published
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of
1730-1850 透明綠料芙蓉花紋鼻煙壺 Snuff Bottles, Tokyo, 1976, no 619

1740-1900 礫碞石素面鼻煙壺

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