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A SIX-COLOR-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820 PROBABLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1770-1820

The bottle is carved through the ruby-red, jade-green, sapphire-blue, The bottle is fnely carved through the red overlay to the white
turquoise, pink and yellow overlay, to the transparent, bubble- ground with an overall design of two dragons pursuing a faming
suffused ground on either side with a green stem bearing three single- pearl amidst fames and above a band of waves encircling the foot.
color peony blooms, and with a yellow bird on one side and a dark 2º in. (5.6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
blue insect in fight on the other.
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, glass stopper $2,000-3,000

$4,000-6,000 PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE: Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2530.
Robert Hall, London, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2501. EXHIBITED:

EXHIBITED: Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The
Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008. 1770-1820年 涅白地套紅玻璃雙龍戲珠紋鼻煙壺

1760-1820年 雪霏地套六色玻璃牡丹紋鼻煙壺

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