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AN ENAMELED COPPER SNUFF BOTTLE
GUANGZHOU, 1850-1920
The kidney-form bottle is decorated in bright enamels on either side
with a cartouche, one side depicting a mountainous landscape with
a figure traversing a bridge, the other with a scholar seated under a
pavilion before large mountains. The base is enameled with a two-
character mark reading shangxin (‘appreciated by the heart’).

1æ in. (4.5 cm.) high, gilt metal stopper

$1,500-2,000

PROVENANCE

Robert Hall, London, 2006.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4321.
䍆袐虈蚔ᡱ㦇瀐՞艴⥘聖㌉

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Ť491 PROVENANCE

THREE OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES First and second bottles: Robert Hall, London, 2008.
1780-1900 Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, nos.
4778 and 5264.
The first, 1800-1900, is carved through the opaque pink overlay Third bottle: Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
to the white ground with two fish. The second, Yangzhou School, Massachusetts, no. 811.
1830-1900, has transparent red overlay carved through to the
opaque yellow glass ground with an immortal and bat on either side. LITERATURE
The third, 1780-1860, is carved through the transparent deep-blue
overlay to the opaque white ground with two bats suspending R. Hall, Serendipity, Chinese Snuff Bottles XVI, London, no. 57
beribboned cash and a large peach. (second bottle).

䍆㍩蔶∇聖㌉Ӳ։

2q, 2q, and 2æ in. (6.4 and 7 cm.) high, glass, agate and malachite

stoppers (3)

$4,000-6,000

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