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A CARVED AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850 Robert Kleiner, London, 2011.
The bottle is carved in low relief through the marbled opaque amber Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5147.
with a continuous landscape, one side with Huang Chengyan
riding a donkey followed by his attendant bearing a double gourd For a discussion on Huang Chengyan and his role in the Sanguo
below pine trees and blossoming prunus, the reverse with a scholar yanyi (‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’) see Moss, Graham,
leading a donkey and accompanied by an attendant. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles, The Mary and George
Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 357-358,
2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, glass stopper no. 573.
1750-1850年 琥珀雕「黃承彥騎驢」圖鼻煙壺
$2,000-3,000

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A RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED
DECORATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1830-1880
The bottle is decorated with four panels, variously depicting a
foreigner holding a ruyi scepter, two vases and a fruiting branch.

3¿ in. (8 cm.) high, glass stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Dennis G. Crow, Los Angeles, California, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 1264.
1830-1880年 青花釉裏紅西洋人物圖鼻煙壺

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