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A BLUE-OVERLAY RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
YANGZHOU, 1830-1890
The bottle has transparent light-blue overlay carved through to
the clear red glass ground with eight orchid blossoms and two
butterfies, and is raised on a blue glass foot ring.

2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Dennis G. Crow, Los Angeles, California 1993.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 509.

EXHIBITED

Corning, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, 2007-2008.
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

LITERATURE

Symposium on Chinese Snuf Bottles from the Collection of Carl
F. Barron, Presented at the Annual Convention of the International
Chinese Snuf Bottle Association, Boston, privately printed,
2008, p. 12.
1830-1890年 揚州作紅套藍玻璃蘭草圖鼻煙壺

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A LARGE CARVED AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1860 Robert C. Eldred Co., East Dennis, Massachusetts, 28 August 1993,
The translucent bottle of orange-brown tone is carved with fgures lot 104.
in an outdoor setting below a willow and a pine tree and with mask Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 825.
and ring handles on the shoulders.
1760-1860年 琥珀雕人物故事圖鼻煙壺
3¡ in. (8.5 cm.) high, jasper stopper

$4,000-6,000

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