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A GROUP OF FIVE VARIOUS SNUFF A THREE-COLOUR OVERLAY GLASS
BOTTLES SNUFF BOTTLE
19th century Circa 1800-1880
Including: a snow-flakes snuff bottle with The ovoid bottle tapering to a straight
red ‘double-xi’ decoration in relief, with neck with wide mouth, elegantly overlaid
coral stopper; a rock crystal snuff bottle in cranberry, blue and turquoise designs
with decoration of red fish in relief; a white symbolising the ‘Three Friends of Winter’, on
agate snuff bottle with pink quartz stopper; an opaque white ground, stopper. 6.3cm (2
a brownish amber snuff bottle with mask 1/2in) high
handles and hardstone stopper; and a
reddish ‘mila’ amber snuff bottle with chilong £2,500 - 3,000
448 carvings on the side and wood stand. Mila HK$27,000 - 32,000
amber snuff bottle with stand: 8cm (3 1/8in) CNY22,000 - 26,000
high (8).
Provenance: Bonhams New York, 16 March
£800 - 1,200 2015, lot 8001
HK$8,500 - 13,000 The Asian Art Studio
CNY7,100 - 11,000 Sotheby’s New York, March 2003, lot 368
The Jade Collector, Los Angeles, November
447 2001

EIGHT GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES Published: The Bentley Collection of
18th/19th century and later Chinese Snuff Bottles
Comprising: three red overlay on snowstorm The Asian Art Studio, 2008, page 31.
grounds, all with stoppers; another in green
overlay, wood stand; two in black overlay,
one with wood stand; a ruby-coloured bottle 449
with carved mask handles and an inscribed A RED OVERLAY ON SNOWSTORM
inside-painted example. GLASS BOTTLE VASE
The tallest bottle (with stopper): 8.2cm (3 19th century
1/4in) high (15). The tubular neck and globular lower body
deeply carved through the ruby layer to
£800 - 1,200 reveal the white snowstorm ground, the
HK$8,500 - 13,000 obverse with a medallion of a long-tailed bird
CNY7,100 - 11,000 among bamboo and peonies, the reverse
with prunus and bamboo on rockwork.
Provenance: An English private collection, 28cm (11in) high
and thence by descent.
£800 - 1,200
HK$8,500 - 13,000
CNY7,100 - 11,000

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