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                                                              TWO ENAMELED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES
                                                              JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1840-1900

                                                              The first bottle, 1840-1900, is decorated on the white glazed
                                                              sgraffito ground with two immortals standing on clouds. The second,
                                                              1840-1900, is enameled with two katydids.

                                                              2æ and 3¿ in. (7 and 8 cm.) high, agate stoppers  (2)
                                                              $800-1,200

                                                              PROVENANCE

                                                              First bottle:
                                                              Dennis G. Crow, Los Angeles, California, 1996.
                                                              Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2133.
                                                              Second bottle:
                                                              Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 19.

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                                                         542  Ť543
                                                              AN ENAMELED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
                                                        543   IMPERIAL, YANGZHOU, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER
86                                                            MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1770-1799)
                                                              The bottle is brightly enameled with a continuous scene of two
                                                              kingfishers, on one side seen drinking from a stream and on the other
                                                              perched on a flowering plum branch.

                                                              2w in. (7.3 cm.) high, malachite stopper
                                                              $2,000-3,000

                                                              PROVENANCE

                                                              Michael Hughes, New York.
                                                              Robert Hall, London, 2011.
                                                              Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5202.
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