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A SILVER-INLAID OXIDIZED COPPER
RECTANGULAR SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1900
One side of the fattened body is decorated in silver wire inlay
with a fgure seated at a table beneath a tree, the reverse with
a calligraphic inscription, and the neck and narrow sides with
shou characters.
2¿ in. (5.3 cm.) high, matching metal stopper and metal spoon
$2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2700.
A similarly inlaid oxidized copper snuf bottle of rounded
square shape, from The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine
Chinese Snuf Bottles: Part I, was sold at Christie’s New York,
16 September 2015, lot 340
1780-1900年 銅胎嵌銀絲人物圖詩文鼻煙壺
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AN AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE
1770-1850
The bottle is wrapped with bands of opaque white color
and has a circular, reddish-maroon area on one shoulder
opposite a semi-translucent greyish-white area on the other.
2 in. (5 cm.) high, glass stopper
$2,500-3,500
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts,
no. 2949.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
1770-1850年 瑪瑙天然紋鼻煙壺

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