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A CARVED AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1880
The bottle is of deep honey-orange tone and is carved on one main
side with a long-tailed bird on flowering branches, and with a crane
below pine trees on the reverse. Each narrow side is carved with a
mask and ring handle.

2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, agate stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2821.
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Ť451 PROVENANCE

THREE CARNELIAN AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES First bottle:
1760-1860 Victor Topper, Toronto, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2911.
The first bottle is of a peach tone with darker red spotting and Second bottle:
vertical striations. The second, of peach form, is reddish-orange in Robert Kleiner, London, 2010.
tone, with a large white marking on one side. The third, flattened Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5078.
bottle, has subtle mottling of reddish to beige tones. Third bottle:
Robert Hall, London, 1996.
2º, 2¬ and 2¿ in. (5.8, 6.7, 5.5 cm.) high, shell, plastic and glass Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2329.

stoppers (3) 䍆蒗蚉⇢聖㌉Ӳ։

$1,500-2,000

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