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SNuFF BOTTleS

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A cINNABAR lAcqueR SNuFF BOTTle TOgeTHeR wITH A
clOISONNÈ eNAMel exAMPle
The heart-shaped bottle carved to one side with Immortals riding on
a donkey and ox, the other with a band of musicians, two-character
mark to base, stopper, 6.4cm high; and a cloisonnÈ enamel snuff of
waisted flattened form decorated to one side with bamboo, peony
and butterfly and to the other with hibiscus and butterfly, reserved on
yellow key-fret ground, cloisonnÈ stopper.
Bottle 5.8cm high (4).
£400 - 600

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A clOISONNÈ eNAMel SNuFF BOTTle
Decorated to the neck with band of prunus flowers and to each side
with a central shou roundel flanked by stylised pairs of blue chi-
dragons and red phoenix on a gilt ground, all within a foliate panel
surrounded by lotus flowers and foliage on a gilt ground.
5.4cm high
£2,000 - 3,000

Compare to similar examples sold at Christie’s New York, on 13
September 2017, lot 204, and another in the same rooms, on 17
September 2008, lot 2 in the J&J Collection.
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AN INSIde-PAINTed glASS SNuFF BOTTle
By Ye Zhongshan, dated to Dingmao year (1927)
Depicting a continuous scene of pavilions and pines on the shore of a
mountain lake, with poetic inscription, seal and signature.
Bottle 5.6cm high

£500 - 800
Provenance
Previously from the estate of Anne Moen Bullitt, an American socialite,
100 philanthropist and horse breeder. Bought at Adams Auctioneers,
Dublin, on 10 June 2008.
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A clOISONNÈ eNAMel SNuFF BOTTle
Qianlong four-character mark but later
Decorated to each side to with a shaped panel of scholarly objects
framed by pairs of stylised phoenix and scrolling lotus to shoulders
and sides, stopper.
6.4cm high (2).

£600 - 800

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