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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTOR

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A SIX-COLOUR GLASS OVERLAY ‘SILKWORM’ SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

清 黑地套六彩桑蠶紋鼻煙壺

The bottle is carved through the light blue, red, pink, coral, white and green     PROVENANCE:
glass overlay to reveal the black ground, depicting silkworms and other insects
amongst mulberry leaves.                                                           With Hugh Moss, London.
                                                                                   Property of an important private Asian collector.

2¡ in. (6.2 cm.) high                                                              來源:購自倫敦古董商Hugh Moss先生

£1,000-1,500                     $1,600-2,300
                                 €1,400-2,000

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A GROUP OF FOUR HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLES                                            The moss agate bottle: Sotheby’s Australia, 14 May 2012, lot 427 (one of three).
19TH-20TH CENTURY                                                                  The yellow hardstone bottle: Collection of Margaret Polak.
                                                                                   Property from an important private Asian collector.
十九/二十世紀 瑪瑙及硬石鼻煙壺 一組四件
                                                                                   來源:瑪瑙於2012年5月14日澳洲蘇富比拍賣,拍品第
The lot comprises: an agate snuf bottle, a moss agate snuf bottle, and a tea       427號(其中之一)
crystal snuf bottle, each carved with two fxed-ring Buddhist lion handles to
the shoulder; and a yellow hardstone snuf bottle.

The largest 2æ in. (7 cm.) high                   (4)                              硬石Margaret Polak私人珍藏
£6,000-8,000
                                 $9,100-12,000                                                                      END OF MORNING SESSION
                                 €8,200-11,000

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