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8090 Property from a Florida collector
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A red overlay glass snuff bottle
18th/19th century
Well-hollowed, of tapering ovoid form with a waisted neck, flat rim,
finely finished oval foot ring, carved through the thick transparent red
overlay to each of the main sides with a vessel holding auspicious
fruits, and supported either on stacked books or a fancy stand,
separated by faux lion mask-and-ring handles.
2 3/16in (5.6cm) high
$1,000 - 1,500

8091
An inside-painted rock crystal snuff bottle
Ma Shaoxuan, 1900
The rounded rectangular bottle masterfully decorated to the front in
a subdued color combination, displaying fan paintings and leaves of
calligraphy, the reverse dated gengzi chun yue (spring of 1900), with
a calligraphic inscription probably excerpted from a stele, signed Ma
Shaoxuan above a vertical seal mark.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high
$1,200 - 1,500

8092
Two overlay decorated milky white snuff bottles
Li Junting School, attributed to Yangzhou, 19th century
Each of rounded rectangular shape, the first carved through five-color
overlay, one side displaying a fisherman rowing his boat past rocks
and trees, the reverse with an ebullient scene of a duck and goose
swimming in a lotus pond, the narrower side set with bat-and-ring
handles; the second delicately carved through a thin layer of glaucous-
brown and pink depicting a nomad-looking man shooting at a bird
with arrow near a horse tethered to a tree, the upper left with a two-
character cartouche, the reverse with an auspicious design depicting
a crane perching on the roof of a pavilion behind an old pine tree, its
head turning to the sky as if answering a message from another crane
holding a lingzhi spray.
2 3/8in (6cm) height of each
$2,000 - 3,000

For a full discussion on the Li Junting School, see Moss, Graham and
Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Weatherhill, New York, Vol.
2, pp. 651-658.

8093
An agate snuff bottle
19th century
Well-hollowed, of ovoid form with a straight neck, very subtly
concave rim, flat foot, carved in rounded relief to one side with a
lotus sprig rising from incised wave swirls, the central leaf utilizing the
natural stratum of the stone decorated with a lotus pod surrounded
by lotus petals, with stalk of reed elegantly stretching to the other
side of the bottle.
1 7/8in (4.7cm) high
$1,200 - 1,500

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