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287 * A RED OVERLAY SIMULATED-REALGAR
‘HORSE AND QILIN’ SNUFF BOTTLE
A RED OVERLAY GLASS ‘THREE 19th century
FRIENDS’ SNUFF BOTTLE The bottle of flattened oviform shape, with
19th century tapering sides rising from a flat, oval foot ring
The red overlay delicately carved to reveal the to a slender, flaring neck and flat dish-shaped
semi-translucent snowstorm ground, with a mouth, one side with a Buddhist lion, the
scene of a sage and boy attendant crossing obverse with a horse looking at the sun.
a bridge in a grove of pine, bamboo and 6cm (2 3/8in) high
prunus. £1,200 - 1,500
6cm (2 3/8in) high CNY10,000 - 13,000 HK$12,000 - 15,000
Provenance
£500 - 800 HK$4,900 - 7,800 Sotheby’s, London, Important Chinese Snuff
CNY4,300 - 6,900 Bottles From the Collection of the Stone
Picking Studio (Cai Shi Xuan), 21 June 1995,
Provenance lot 25.
The Dodge Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, 17 March 1997, lot 86 287

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118 | BONHAMS
TWO OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
19th/ early 20th century
The first bubble-suffused bottle with red
overlay carved with the Nine Cauldrons; the
second flattened bottle of amber hued glass
with a black overlay carved with birds and
flowers.
The largest: 6.8cm (2 3/4in) high (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,700 - 13,000 HK$9,800 - 15,000

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.