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1075 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1076 A WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
19TH / 20TH CENTURY
1077
124 SOTHEBY’S of rounded square form, supported on an oval foot ring, the
stone with a slight yellow tint
Height 2⅝ in., 6.7 cm
$ 1,500-2,500
⋩ḅġİġḴ⋩ᶾ䲨ġġġ䘥䌱滣䄁⢢
1075
TWO SNUFF BOTTLES
LATE QING DYNASTY
the rst of a caramel-colored agate relief-carved with a duck
and a rafting boy bearing giant owering peony branches, the
second a pudding stone bottle with relief-carved lion-mask
handles, stoppers (4)
Height of taller 2⅝ in., 6.7 cm
PROVENANCE
George Crofts & Co., Toronto, 1923.
Collection of Lieutenant Colonel Norman Pearce, Toronto.
Collection of Richard Callery Pearce, Toronto (1921-2014)
$ 2,000-3,000
㶭㛓ġġġ滣䄁⢢ℑẞ
1076
TWO SNUFF BOTTLES
LATE QING DYNASTY 20TH CENTURY
the rst of stoneware with incised garden scenes with a lady
and a crane, the second of cinnabar lacquer, relief-carved with
gures against a spiral-pattern ground, stoppers (4)
PROVENANCE
The cinnabar lacquer bottle:
Collection of Patricia Ann (Miller) McDermott (1921-2007),
Honolulu, Hawaii.
$ 1,500-2,500
㶭㛓军Ḵ⋩ᶾ䲨ġġġ滣䄁⢢ℑẞ
1077
AN AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
carved to one side with a deer and monkey under a pine tree,
the other side with a sherman, the neck mounted in silver with
an inscription ‘AUG 20 - C.R.H. 1947’ (2)
Height 2¾ in., 7 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired in China circa 1947, and thence by descent.
$ 1,500-2,000
㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ䐒䐁ⶏ晽㺩佩⼿⇑⚾滣䄁⢢