Page 78 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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(two views)

Ψ 297
A YELLOW-OVERLAY PINK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1860

The bottle is carved through the opaque yellow overlay to the opaque
pink ground, with a continuous scene of pine branches and lingzhi
growing from rocks, with a deer on one side and a pair of cranes on
the other.
2º in. (5.6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

$1,500-2,500

PROVENANCE:

Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1993.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 915.

1780-1860年 粉紅地套黃玻璃「鹿鶴同春」圖鼻煙壺

Ψ 298
TWO INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES

The frst, smaller bottle, signed Chen Zhongsan and dated gengxu year

(1910), is decorated with a continuous scene of wide, pierced rock

from behind which emerges a pine branch, with spiders and other

insects within the scene. The larger bottle, signed Wang Baichuan

and dated guichou year (1973), is decorated on one side with a cat

resting on a rock, and on the other side with a crane on a pine branch.

2√ and 2æ in. (6 and 7 cm.) high, stone and jadeite stoppers (2)

$2,000-3,000

298 PROVENANCE:

76 Belfont Company, Hong Kong, 1993.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 918,
922.

庚戌年(1910)
陳仲三作玻璃內畫松石圖鼻煙壺
癸丑年(1973)
王百川作玻璃內畫「松鶴延年」圖鼻煙壺