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TWO ‘REALGAR’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES A WHITE-OVERLAY PINK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1700-1800 POSSIBLY PALACE WORKSHOPS, BEIJING, 1780-1850

The fattened ovoid bottle is streaked with unusual green and yellow The bottle is carved through the opaque white overlay to the opaque
rose-tone body on one side with a fgure seated beneath a prunus tree
horizontal banding on a mottled reddish-orange ground. The high- and pulling the rein of his donkey in attempt to coax him over a log
bridge, while his young attendant raises a whip behind the animal.
shouldered bottle is decorated with scattered green markings on a The other side shows a scene of a scholar, possibly Meng Haoren,
riding a donkey beneath a prunus tree while the attendant follows
mottled red and orange ground. behind holding a fowering prunus branch.
2¬ in. (6.5 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
2¬ and 2Ω in. (6.8 and 6.3 cm.), jadeite and agate stoppers (2)
$2,000-3,000
$2,500-3,500
PROVENANCE:
PROVENANCE:
Charles V. Swain, Pennsylvania.
Green-streaked bottle: Robert Hall, London, 2008.
Robert Hall, London, 2009. Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4897.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4992.
Green-marked bottle:
Dennis G. Crow Ltd., Los Angeles, California, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1266.

EXHIBITED: EXHIBITED:

Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention,
Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008 (green-marked bottle). Robert Hall, 2008.

LITERATURE: LITERATURE:

R. Hall, Irish Mist, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIV, p. 12, no. 11 (green- R. Hall, The Boston Snuff Party, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIII, London,
streaked bottle). 2008, no. 29.

1700-1800年 仿雄黃玻璃攪色鼻煙壺兩件 For a discussion of the subject of a scholar riding a donkey see the note to
lot 274

1780-1850年 粉紅地套白玻璃「踏雪尋梅」圖鼻煙壺

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