Page 96 - The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part I

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A SMALL FOUR-COLOR-OVERLAY CLEAR GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1760-1830

The bottle is carved through the transparent red, pale-green, blue and
translucent yellow overlay to the cloudy, semi-transparent ground
with the sanduo, on one side with a green branch bearing two red
peaches fanked by a yellow fnger citron and a bat, and on the other
side with two red pomegranates, all above the curling leafy branch
that forms the foot.
1¬ in. (4.1 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE:

Robert Kleiner, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5139.

1760-1830年 雪霏地套四色三多紋小鼻煙壺

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AN UNDERGLAZE COPPER-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE
PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1860

The cylindrical bottle is decorated under the glaze in copper red of
crushed-strawberry tone and cobalt blue with a farmer seated astride a
water buffalo in a rocky landscape as he holds a stick on which a bird
is perched. The characters wan yu (‘jade to be treasured’) are written in
underglaze blue on the base.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, glass stopper

$1,000-1,500

PROVENANCE:

John Ault Collection.
Robert Kleiner, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5141.

325 1800-1860年 青花釉裏紅放牛圖鼻煙壺

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