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A RARE ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
BOTTLE JINGDEZHEN KILNS, DECORATION
PROBABLY GUANGZHOU, 1770-1830
The bottle is decorated on either side with a raised quatrefoil panel
enameled with a scene of butterfies, all on a stippled yellow ground
with gilt decoration.

3¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, original porcelain stopper with later
silver mount.

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

The Denys and Eithne Cowell Collection.
Robert Kleiner, London, 2003.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 3681.
1770-1830年 黃地粉彩模印開光舞蝶圖鼻煙壺

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A BROWNISH-RED OVERLAY YELLOW GLASS
SNUFF BOTTLE Robert Hall, London, 1995.
YANGZHOU, 1860-1900 Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
The bottle is carved through the opaque overlay to the translucent no. 1864.
ground with bronze vessels, fowering branches in vases, a censer
with a lingzhi fungus, a tea pot, fruit, a crayfsh, a fying bat, and a 1860-1900年 黃地套赤色玻璃「吉祥」圖鼻煙壺
‘ jixiang’ (‘Auspiciousness’) seal.

2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, glass stopper

$2,400-3,400

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