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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⢢
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