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861 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A GENTLEMAN
FOUR OVERLAY DECORATED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
Late 19th century 862
Including two Yangzhou School bottles with thinly applied brown TWO JADE SNUFF BOTTLES
overlay, flanked by a pair of faux animal mask-and-ring handles: one Eggplant jade bottle: 1800-1880
decorated with a katydid on a flipped-over cage, its reverse depicting Including an eggplant-shaped bottle and a slender bottle with sloping
a herdboy throwing his hat into the air while sitting next to a buffalo, shoulders.
one corner inscribed qingyun zhi shang; the second decorated with 3 1/4 and 3 3/8in (8.3 and 8.7cm) high (2).
a figure to each main side, one kneeling in front of a large perforated
rock, the other gazing at a wine cup beneath an inscription reading $1,200 - 1,800
ci zhong you zhenyi; two pink color overlay white glass ‘figural’ snuff
bottles: one exhibiting a continuous scene of a scholar playing a qin 863
facing a blooming plum tree, with inscriptions; the second carved to A GRAYISH-WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
one side with a Shoulao and his deer, reversed with a shou character Late 19th/20th century
between two bats, all below stylized shou characters surrounding the Both sides carved in relief with a pair of chilong; the grayish-white
neck of the bottle. matrix with large patches of russet markings.
1 7/8 to 2 3/4in (4.8 to 7cm) high (4). 2 3/16in (5.6cm) high
$1,300 - 2,000 $800 - 1,200

Provenance 864
Brown overlaid bottles: A CARVED CHALCEDONY SNUFF BOTTLE
both acquired from King Feng Arts Co., Hong Kong, 19 June 1999 20th century
Bottle with a scholar playing a qin: One side carved with a monk holding a ruyi scepter in his left hand,
King Feng Arts Co., Hong Kong, 4 March 1996 and a string of rosary beads in his right hand, the reverse depicting a
Bottle with shoulao: crane in flight near a gnarled pine tree, the narrow sides with a pair of
Chinese Arts & Crafts (HK) Ltd., 13 April 2000 mock animal-head handles.
2 1/8in (5.4cm) high

$800 - 1,200
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