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A multi-color overlaid milky-white glass snuff bottle
108 | BONHAMS 1800-1900
Well-hollowed, the baluster form bottle with a waisted neck, flat lip, subtly
spreading circular foot ring, that form graceful bamboo branches behind
rocks, a leafy peony flower and a butterfly hovering around a lotus pond with
a pair of ducks swimming ducks under the sun peeking through clouds.
2 7/8in (7.3cm) high
$2,500 - 4,000

Provenance
the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Sotheby’s Sussex, 25 June, 1991, lot 276

Illustrated
Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles,
2008, p. 36

7194
A red overlaid ‘snowflake’ glass snuff bottle
1800-1880
Well-hollowed, of compressed globular form with a very subtly waisted neck,
flat lip, wide oval foot ring, the bubble-suffused ground applied with cranberry-
red overlay carved around the walls to portray a placid lotus pond with a
catfish and an egret, some details rendered with carefully incised lines.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000

Provenance
the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Roger Tsui, Hong Kong 1988

Illustrated
Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles,
2008, p. 42