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Ť484 484
A PURPLE-OVERLAY ‘SNOWFLAKE’
GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1880
The bottle is carved through the
transparent dark purple glass overlay to
the semi-opaque white ground on one side
with squirrels climbing on a grape vine, the
reverse with a pod-hung vine growing from
rocks.

3¿ in. (8 cm.) high, quartz stopper
$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California,
2005.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4221.
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邘⥶㍩蔶∇悕昰聖㌉

Ť485
A CARVED MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND
WOOD SNUFF BOTTLE
THE YAJI MASTER, JAPAN, 1860-1930
The bottle is set on each side with a carved
shell panel, one side depicting He Xiangu
with a basket of flowers, the reverse with two
scholars in a landscape, the narrow sides set
with raised bosses and geometric patterns in
carved shell.

2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Kleiner, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4732.

For another bottle by the Yaji Master see
Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch
Collection, Vol. 7, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2009,
pp. 604-606, no. 1717.
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垆怳㍀䊕‫ה‬怰にᡱᒅմ㑤⥘
聖㌉

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