Page 100 - Carl Barron Snuff Bottle Collection, CHRISTIE's Spet 12 2018

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AN OLIVE-BROWN OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
YANGZHOU, DATED RENWU (1882)
The bottle is delicately carved through the semi-translucent olive-brown overlay with
a continuous scene of birds and fowering branches on the opaque, white ground above
rocks carved at the bottom. One side has an archaistic inscription carved in cameo with
an auspicious saying about evergreens and longevity.
2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high, glass stopper
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Baroness Jacobea Sapuppo, Italy.
Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York, 2001.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3097.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Compare to a similar bottle from the A Collection illustrated by Clare Chu in
Chinese Snuf Bottles from Southern Californian Collectors, Hong Kong, 2016, p. 63.
壬午年(1882) 揚州作白地套褐綠玻璃「花木長榮」圖鼻煙壺

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