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TWO GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES A ‘HAIR’ CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE TWO PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES
19th century 19th century 19th century
The first a Yangzhou school style bottle with Of flattened globular form, with a cylindrical The first of elongated form, possibly made
thinly applied five-color overlays, one side neck, recessed lip and foot, the stone in Japan, painted around side walls in blue
carved as a fisherman in a floating boat near suffused with intense black tourmaline enamel on a crackled ivory-tinged ground
gnarled trees, the reverse carved with a cat needles (small chips and bruises). with crashing waves above a gold-painted
chasing butterflies, in addition to auspicious 1 15/16in (5cm) high band (neck reduced); the second a cylindrical
fruits and a blooming tree, the body of the bottle with a waisted neck, rounded lip,
bottle with wavy surfaces, suffused with $1,000 - 1,500 the side walls painted in copper-red and
dense white flecks (neck cut down); the underglaze blue with mythological scene of
second a chicken-fat yellow glass bottle figures in landscape, the recessed flat base
made as a double-gourd, the side carved Provenance centered with a leaf in underglaze blue within
in relief and undercut with additional gourds Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 25 January a circular foot ring (chipped).
and leafy scrolls (chips). 1978, lot 118 3 1/4in (8.3cm) height of each
1 5/8 to 2 7/8in (4.1 to 7.3cm) high
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$1,500 - 2,500 AN INSIDE-PAINTED AMBER GLASS
SNUFF BOTTLE Provenance
Provenance The rounded square bottle painted on each Blue enameled bottle:
Five-color overlay ‘snowflake’ glass bottle: main side in black ink and limited range Eldred’s Auction, East Dennis,
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 25 January of colors, depicting figures from the Qing Massachusetts, 22 August 1979
1978, lot 10 dynasty novel Dream of the red Chamber, Copper-red and underglaze blue bottle:
Yellow ‘double-gourd’ glass bottle: one side bearing a signature reading Yong Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts, 27
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 25 January Shoutian zuo, followed with a red seal mark, August 1980, lot 114
1978, lot 16 titled Honglou Meng (crizzling, scratches).
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
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AN AMBER GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE $800 - 1,200
18th/early 19th century
The rounded bottle supported on a thin oval Provenance
foot ring, its cylindrical neck rising to a very Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 29
slightly recessed lip, the glass of transparent September 1977
amber coloring (minute nicks).
2in (5.1cm) high

$800 - 1,200

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