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THREE BLUE AND WHITE SNUFF BOTTLES

1820-1880 Rectangular bottle: Robert Kleiner, London, 2009.

The soft paste, rectangular bottle, 1820-1850, is decorated on either Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4893.
side with a courting scene between molded mask and ring handles, the Square bottle: Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2001.
base with an apocryphal Yongzheng mark. The bottle of square section, Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5157.
1850-1880, is decorated on each side with two buddhist lions beneath Cylindrical bottle: Robert Kleiner, London, 2012.
bats on the top and the neck. The third, cylindrical bottle, 1830-1850, Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5301.

is decorated with a continuous scene of eight various zodiac animals 1820-1880年 青花鼻煙壺三件
beneath a dragon peering from clouds.

2Ω, 3¿ and 3 in. (6.3, 7.9 and 7.5 cm.) high, plastic and jadeite stoppers

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$2,500-3,500

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A FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE SNUFF BOTTLE
1730-1860

The bottle is thick-walled and of somewhat fattened, rounded shape.
The fnely polished stone is of buff color suffused with a dense pattern
of fne black and some pale blue and pale russet inclusions.
2º in. (5.6 cm.) high, glass stopper

$1,500-2,500

PROVENANCE:

Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4955.

1730-1860年 石化石灰石鼻煙壺

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