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TWO MOLDED AND GLAZED PORCELAIN SQUIRREL-
FORM SNUFF BOTTLES PROVENANCE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1820-1920
First bottle:
Each bottle depicts a squirrel clutching onto a leafy cluster of Neal Hunter Collection.
grapes. The first is glazed pale yellow with darker markings, 1820- Robert Kleiner, London, 2008.
1880, and the second is bright-yellow glazed, 1880-1920. Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4866.
Second bottle:
2º and 3 in. (5.7 and 7.6 cm.) long, malachite, jadeite and shell (2) Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4961.
stoppers 䍆昖≇Ӳ䔥悕昰聖㌉ᢔ։

$2,400-3,400

Ť523 PROVENANCE

THREE OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES First bottle:
YANGZHOU SCHOOL, 1860-1900 Robert Hall, London, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2504.
The first is carved through the black overlay to the translucent Second and third bottles:
turquoise-blue ground on one side with a cat and a chrysanthemum Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009.
branch and on the other with birds and ‘antiques’ next to a three- Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, nos. 4910
character archaistic inscription. The second is carved through the and 4909.
pink and olive-brown overlays to the opaque white ground with birds
and arching branches on one side and two fish and waterweeds and 䍆厂䉄‫ה‬㍩蔶∇聖㌉Ӳ։
a seal on the other. The third is carved through the brown and ruby-
red overlays to the opaque yellow ground with a bird perched on a
flowering branch on one side and a flower-filled vase on the other,
between mask and ring handles on the narrow sides.

2º, 2¿, and 25 in. (5.8, 5.4 and 6.5 cm.), rose quartz and glass

stoppers (3)

$4,000-6,000

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