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538 •Ψ538
(two views) AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF
BOTTLE
539 SIGNED DING ERZHONG, BEIJING,
84 CIRCA 1893-1894
The bottle is elegantly inside-painted with a
tiger in a rocky landscape on one side, with
the signature Erzhong and an illegible seal
mark, and a dragon writhing through clouds
on the other, the neck is incised with a band
of archaistic scrollwork.

2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Robert C. Eldred Co., East Dennis,
Massachusetts, 26 August 1993, lot 189.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 812.
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Ť539
A MOLDED AND CARVED
PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1830-1880
The bottle is covered in a colorless glaze
and decorated in the round with a battle
scene from the Romance of the Three
Kingdoms, the figures’ faces picked out with
black enamel. The base has an apocryphal
Qianlong mark.

2æ in. (7 cm.) high, tourmaline stopper
$1,500-2,000

PROVENANCE

Galerie Di Donna, Paris, 1986.
The White Orchid Collection.
Robert Hall, London, 2012.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 5361.

LITERATURE

R. Hall, The White Orchid Collection, Chinese
Snuff Bottles XVII, London, 2012, no. 83
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