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PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1770-1840
Details
A RED-OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1770-1840
The bottle is finely carved through the ruby-red overlay to the semi-transparent ground with a crane holding a tally flying above a pavilion with an open floodgate above waves on one side, and angular mountains rising from the sea below a bat in flight on the reverse. The narrow sides are carved with mask-and-ring handles.
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
PROBABLY IMPERIAL, 1770-1840
The bottle is finely carved through the ruby-red overlay to the semi-transparent ground with a crane holding a tally flying above a pavilion with an open floodgate above waves on one side, and angular mountains rising from the sea below a bat in flight on the reverse. The narrow sides are carved with mask-and-ring handles.
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1997.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2534.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2534.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.