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A CARVED CAMEO AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1880
The bottle is of pale brown color and carved on one side through the
dark russet marking with a squirrel beneath a grape vine.

2º in. (5.7 cm) high, glass stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 2006.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4315.
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Ť487 PROVENANCE

THREE OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES First bottle: Robert Kleiner, London, 2006
1800-1880 Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4302.
Second and third bottles: Robert Hall, London, 2005 and 2007.
The first bottle is of opaque white glass with the red transparent Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, nos. 4279
overlay forming peach and pomegranate-form panels enclosing and 4695.
fish. The second is carved through the transparent blue glass
overlay to the clear ‘snowflake’ glass ground with blossoming EXHIBITED
prunus trees. The third is a semi-transparent greenish-yellow
glass bottle with black overlay carved on each side with Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Convention, The Barron
flowering tree peony, a phoenix perched on one. Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

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2º, 2q and 2¬ in. (5.7, 6.3 and 6.6 cm.) high, stone and glass

stoppers (3)

$5,000-7,000

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