Page 107 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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A RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, BEIJING, 1736-1795 SB Collection, England.
Robert Hall, London, 2011.
The bottle is carved through the transparent, deep-red overlay to the Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5275.
densely bubble-suffused, semi-transparent ground on one side with a
toad seated on a large lotus leaf beneath the shade of a larger leaf. The LITERATURE:
other side is decorated with a tortoise and a snake, its body looping
around to form the foot. R. Hall, The SB Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles XV, London, 2011,
2º in. (5.7 cm) high, mother-of-pearl stopper no. 115.

$1,400-1,800 1736-1795年 御製雪霏地套紅玻璃「清廉」圖鼻煙壺

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AN UNUSUAL MINIATURE GOLD-INLAID OXIDIZED COPPER SNUFF
BOTTLE
1730-1780

The somewhat bulging sides have indented corners below the fat
shoulder, and each side is decorated with a different, gold wire-inlaid
scene of scholars, while the neck is decorated with clouds. The whole
is raised on bracket feet.
1º in. (3 cm.) high, silver stopper and spoon

$1,000-1,500

PROVENANCE:

Ko Collection; Christie’s London, 12 June 1972, lot 167.
Robert Kleiner, London, 2012.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5298.

1730-1780年 銅錯金開光人物圖袖珍方形鼻煙壺

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