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A BLUE-OVERLAY WHITE AND PINK GLASS PEACH-FORM SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1860
The bottle is carved through the blue glass to form a leafy stem and a bat encircling
the mouth, and the body is of opaque milky-white and pink ‘souflé’ glass giving the
impression of a ripe peach.
2 in. (5 cm.) high, glass stopper
$3,000-4,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3020.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.
A similar peach ‘souflé’ glass bottle is illustrated and discussed by Moss, Graham,
Tsang in A Treasury of Chinese Snuf Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection,
Vol. 5, Part 3, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 973, no. 973.
1760-1860年 粉紅白地套藍玻璃「福壽」鼻煙壺

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