Page 60 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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TWO OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES

1770-1850

The frst, 1770-1840, is a red-overlay bottle

carved through to the bubble-suffused

ground on one side with a carp emitting

vapor from its mouth as it emerges from

the lower wave border, opposite a pagoda-

like structure on the reverse. The second,

1780-1850, is a green-overlay bottle carved

through to the caramel-tone ground with

a continuous design of a praying mantis on

each main side, each insect perched on a pea

pod amidst scrolling vines.

2Ω and 2 in. (6.3 and 5 cm.) high, plastic

and jadeite stoppers (2)

$3,000-5,000

270 PROVENANCE:

271 Red-overlay bottle: Robert Kleiner, London,
2006.
58 Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4298.
Green-overlay bottle: Robert Kleiner,
London, 2005.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4265.

EXHIBITED:

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle
Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008 (red overlay bottle).

1770-1840年
雪霏地套紅玻璃「魚化龍」鼻煙壺
1780-1850年
黃地套綠玻璃螳螂紋鼻煙壺

271
A BLUE GLASS FACETED SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1720-
1850

The octagonal bottle is carved on the body
with eight long, vertical facets, enclosed
by conforming pentagonal facets on the
shoulder and above the foot.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper

$2,500-3,500

PROVENANCE:

Robert Kleiner, London, 2005.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont,
Massachusetts, no. 4276.

EXHIBITED:

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

1720-1850年
御製藍玻璃磨花鼻煙壺