Page 18 - Ruth and Carl Barron Snuff Bottles September 2016

Ť415
A HARDSTONE SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1860
Possibly serpentine, the opaque stone has multiple bands of red,
beige, russet, cream and green color throughout.

2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, stone stopper

$1,500-2,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5268.
䍆蒗在ᡱ聖㌉

415 Ť416
A FIVE-COLOR OVERLAY GLASS HEXAGONAL SNUFF
416 BOTTLE
(two views) YANGZHOU SCHOOL, 1840-1890
16 The bottle of tapering form has six subtle rectangular panels and
is decorated with a continuous scene of chickens and chicks, a
flowering chrysanthemum and begonia plant, a crane in flight, a
crescent moon and insects, all on a ground of translucent milky-
white glass, with an oval cartouche above the foot reading zheng ke
(‘just right’) in red glass overlay.

2q in. (6.4 cm.) high, tourmaline stopper

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 6002.

A bottle with similar decoration is illustrated by Robert Hall in The
The Maxwell Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, New York, 2013,
no. 84, pp. 44-45.
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