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A SWIRLED-OVERLAY BLACK GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1850
The swirled yellow and red opaque overlay is carved through to the
swirled blackish-aubergine ground on one side with a sinuous chilong.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper
$1,500-2,500
PROVENANCE:
Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4967.
1760-1850年 黑紫地套黃紅玻璃螭龍紋鼻煙壺
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A FAMILLE ROSE MOLDED AND RETICULATED PORCELAIN
‘LUOHANS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
JINGDEZHEN KILNS, 1820-1880
The sides are molded in high relief and reticulated with the Eighteen
Luohans with their attributes and encase the inner walls of the bottle.
An apocryphal Qianlong iron-red seal mark is on the base.
2√ in. (7.3 cm.) high, porcelain stopper
$1,500-2,500
PROVENANCE:
Robert Hall, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4990.
LITERATURE:
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIV, no. 613.
Similar bottles molded with luohan are illustrated by B. Stevens, The
Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, p. 95, no. 278; by
M. Hughes, The Blair Bequest, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Princeton
University Art Museum, Baltimore, 2002, p. 195, no. 252; and by H. Moss,
Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, pp.126-27, no. 297.
1820-1880年 粉彩堆塑「十八羅漢」圖鼻煙壺
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