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A black overlaid on white glass snuff bottle
96 | BONHAMS 1780-1850
Of compressed globular form with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, the
applied black overlay creating an intriguing silhouette effect on a milky
ground, sensitively carved around the walls with exquisite details to
portray an elderly scholar and his assistant carrying a qin as they cross
a bridge to visit a scholar on the reverse, seated by a desk near an
open window of a house in the shade of a pine issuing behind pierced
rocks while his servant prepares tea in the courtyard, all above the
well-finished oval foot rim.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000

Provenance
Dennis Crow, acquired 1992

Exhibited
Norton Museum of Art, Florida, September - November 1997

Published
Dennis G. Crow Ltd., A Catalogue of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1992, No. 6