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A GREEN-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1780

The bottle is carved through the transparent green overlay to the
opaque white ground on either side with a coiled chi dragon with
sinuous limbs and curling tail.
2 ¡ in. (5.8 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE:

Gerry P. Mack Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 25 October 1997,
lot 8.
Belfont Collection, Hong Kong, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2538.

EXHIBITED:

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

1730-1780年 涅白地套綠玻璃螭龍紋鼻煙壺

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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1770-1800

The elongated pear-shaped body is decorated in underglaze red of
crushed-strawberry tone with a continuous scene of a fve-clawed
dragon amidst clouds and fames above another dragon rising from
waves at the bottom on one side.
2¬ in. (6.7 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper

$1,400-2,000

PROVENANCE:

Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2570.

246 1770-1800年 釉裏紅海水雲龍紋鼻煙壺

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