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A BRIGHT BLUE OVERLAY ‘SNOWSTORM’-GROUND ‘CHAINED
HOUND AND HAWK’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850
Of flattened rounded shape, carved through a bright blue overlay on
one main face with a seated hound tied to a post by a length of chain
attached to his collar, the reverse with a hawk tethered by twisted rope
to a rocky platform, the narrow sides with lion-mask and twisted-rope
fixed-ring handles, the twisted-rope oval foot-ring also carved from the
overlay, all on a dense semi-transparent ‘bubble-suffused’ ground.
2 3/8in (5.8cm) high, stopper

$3,000 - 5,000

1750-1850年 霏雪地套藍料鷹犬紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Asiantiques, November 1992

For another red glass overlay bottle with a very similar design in the
famous Burghley House collection in Stamford, UK, see Hugh M.
Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The
Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., London, 1974, pp.74-75, no. G.57.
Another, also in red overlay is illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff
Bottles, Masterpieces from the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1993, pp.
46-47, no. 17.

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