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18TH CENTURY AND LATER
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EIGHT VARIOUS SNUFF BOTTLES
18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Comprising a pink tourmaline bottle decorated with scrolling mythical beasts flanking each side; an aquamarine bottle carved with bamboo; a red glass bottle of flattened rectangular shape and inscription to one side; and five agate bottles of various shape and decoration
The first, 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) high, stoppers (8)
18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Comprising a pink tourmaline bottle decorated with scrolling mythical beasts flanking each side; an aquamarine bottle carved with bamboo; a red glass bottle of flattened rectangular shape and inscription to one side; and five agate bottles of various shape and decoration
The first, 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) high, stoppers (8)
Provenance
The first bottle:
Leung Chee Hang
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 October, 1992, lot 419.
Leung Chee Hang
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 October, 1992, lot 419.
Exhibited
The first bottle: An Imperial Qing Tradition, Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 8 December 1994 - 5 February 1995; and Phoenix Art Museum, 15 February - 15 April 1995, catalogue no. 107.
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