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A GUYUE XUAN ENAMELED WHITE GLASS
SNUFF BOTTLE                                                               PROVENANCE
IMPERIAL, YANGZHOU, 1770-1799
                                                                       Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995.
The bottle is decorated with a parrot tethered to a perch on           Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
one side, and a mother hen and three chicks on the reverse.            no. 1995.
The base is inscribed with a three-character Guyue Xuan mark          1770-1799年 御製揚州作玻璃畫琺瑯壽石鳥禽圖鼻煙壺
in iron-red enamel.                                                   礬紅「古月軒」篆書款

2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$3,000-5,000

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AN ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1860-1900
The bottle is enameled with six iron-red and gilt dragons, each with
fve claws, set against a ground of formalized, cresting blue waves.

3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, hardstone stopper

$1,400-2,400

PROVENANCE

Dennis G. Crow, Los Angeles, California, 1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 1756.
1860-1900年 礬紅描金海水龍紋鼻煙壺

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