Page 46 - Ruth and Carl Barron Snuff Bottles September 2016

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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YAN YUTIAN, DATED YIWEI YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1895
One side is decorated with a cat staring up at two butterflies
beneath an inscription, yiwei Yan Yutian zuo, followed by a seal,
Yutian, the reverse depicting three fish staring at katydids above.

2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper

$1,000-1,500

PROVENANCE

Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 800.
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464 TWO OVERLAY SUFFUSED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
44 1780-1880

The first bottle, 1800-1880, is carved through the transparent pink
overlay to the bubble-suffused ground with a leaping carp on either
side between mask and ring handles. The second bottle, 1780-1860,
is carved through the transparent ruby-red overlay to the bubble-
suffused ground with a continuous scene of a hawk perched on
rocks between a pine tree and the moon amidst clouds.

24 and 23 in. (6.3 and 6 cm.) high, quartz and stone stoppers (2)
$2,200-3,200

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, London, 2003 and 2007.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, nos.
3774 and 4645.

EXHIBITED

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Convention, The Barron
Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

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