Page 58 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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A ROCK CRYSTAL DOUBLE SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1870

The rock crystal has been carved as two snuff bottles conjoined in
a way that one appears in front of the other, the shoulders of each
carved with animal mask and ring handles.
2¿ in. (5.2 cm.) high, glass, jadeite and glass stoppers

$2,500-3,500

PROVENANCE:

Button Collection, no. 76.
Robert Hall, London, 2003.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3882.

EXHIBITED:

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

LITERATURE:

Robert Hall, The Button Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles X, London,
2003, no. 76.

1750-1870年 水晶鋪首啣環耳雙聯瓶式鼻煙壺

268
A RED-OVERLAY MILKY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
POSSIBLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1760-1820

267 The bottle is carved through the transparent red glass overlay to the
slightly cloudy ground on one side with a medallion containing a
scholar and an attendant walking beneath a pine tree, the other side
with a boy riding a water buffalo and approaching a home on a rocky
outcrop beneath an arching foral branch, all between mask and ring
handles on the narrow sides.
2√ in. (7.7 cm.) high, mother-of-pearl stopper

$2,500-3,500

PROVENANCE:

Robert Hall, London, 2002.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3500.

1760-1820年 雪霏地套紅玻璃開光松下高士圖鼻煙壺

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