Page 15 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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A ‘PUDDINGSTONE’ SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850 208

The thick-walled bottle is of black color suffused with a striking 13
composition of various sized pebbles of pink, grey, greenish-yellow,
white and dark olive-green color, some pebbles appearing as if
outlined.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, amethyst stopper

$800-1,200

PROVENANCE:

Prince Jenkins Antiques, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1993.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 576.
1750-1850年 抱子石光素鼻煙壺

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A MOLDED AND RETICULATED BLUE-ENAMELED PORCELAIN
SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK
AND OF THE PERIOD, 1770-1799

The bottle is decorated in openwork on either side with an oval
dragon panel fanked by molded mask handles on the shoulders and
stylized foret designs between ruyi and leaf borders.
2æ in. (6.9 cm.) high, glass stopper

$1,200-1,800

PROVENANCE:

Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 44.

EXHIBITED:

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
清乾隆 御製模印藍彩鏤雕團龍紋鋪首啣環耳鼻煙壺

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