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A WHITE-OVERLAY BLACK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE (two views)
1770-1850
The bottle is carved in high relief through the white overlay to the
black ground with the ‘Three Friends of Winter’, bamboo, prunus
and pine, growing from rocks, and the narrow sides with handles
formed by a shou medallion, a bat and an ‘endless knot’.
3¿ in. (8 cm.) high, shell stopper
$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1771.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Convention, The Barron
Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Corning, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, 2007-2008.
䍆⥶㍩邘蔶∇桤㡲Ӳ⌄⥘聖㌉

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A CARVED SILHOUETTE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1860
The bottle is of an icy-grey tone and carved through the mottled
russet skin with two felines on one side and a single bird in flight on
the reverse.
2¿ in. (5.4 cm.) high, shell and turquoise stopper
$2,400-3,400

PROVENANCE

Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1938.
䍆鄰䔲蚉⇢℡⥘聖㌉

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