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(two views)                                                  AN ENAMELED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
                                                             IMPERIAL, YANGZHOU SCHOOL, QIANLONG FOUR-
                                                             CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE
                                                             PERIOD (1770-1795)
                                                             The bottle is decorated with birds on flowering branches below
                                                             willow boughs.

                                                             2 ¡ in. (6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
                                                             $2,000-3,000

                                                             PROVENANCE

                                                             Victor Topper, Toronto, 2001.
                                                             Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
                                                             no. 3331.
                                                             玂Գ䕩ㅳ厂䉄‫ה‬蔶∇袐虈蚔੧ӳ醕挑⥘聖㌉
                                                             █⤠㝹妑栦

                                                                            (mark)

                                                             Ť449
                                                             A BLUE-OVERLAY RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
                                                             1800-1880
                                                             The bottle is carved through the transparent blue glass overlay
                                                             to the translucent red ground with two blossoming plum trees,
                                                             with a bird on one side.

                                                             2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, shell stopper
                                                             $2,400-3,400

                                                             PROVENANCE

                                                             Robert Hall, London, 2002.
                                                             Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
                                                             no. 3514.
                                                             䍆䍱㍩蔶∇੧ӳ醕挑⥘聖㌉

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