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A RED-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1780

The bottle is carved through the transparent red overlay to the
translucent bubble-suffused ground on one side with two geese
swimming beneath an arching lotus stem. The other side is decorated
with a single goose in a similar composition.
2º in, (5.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE:

Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1982.

EXHIBITED:

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.

1730-1780年 雪霏地套紅玻璃鵝戲蓮塘圖鼻煙壺

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE-ENAMELED MOLDED PORCELAIN
SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, JINGDEZHEN KILNS, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON
RED AND OF THE PERIOD, 1780-1799

The cylindrical bottle is made in imitation of a blue-overlay glass
bottle and is molded in relief with two fve-clawed dragons, one
chasing a faming pearl above the other as it rises from froth-capped
waves, all covered in bright blue enamel against the white ground.
2æ in. (7 cm.) high, glass stopper

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

Robert Hall, London, 2008.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4881.

(mark) 224 For a similar bottle and discussion of porcelain imitations of glass see Moss,
Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George
24 Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 2, Hong Kong, 2008, p. 397, no. 1177.

清乾隆 御製白地模印藍玻璃雙龍戲珠紋鼻煙壺

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