A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
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A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1880

Details
A RED-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1880
The bottle is carved through the translucent red overlay to the opaque white ground on each side with three butterflies in a row above an arrangement of insects and flowering branches that form a character, fu (luck), the narrow sides each with three further butterflies.
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high, jade stopper
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1996.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2054.
Literature
Symposium on Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Carl F. Barron, Presented at the Annual Convention of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Association, Boston, privately printed 2008, p. 22.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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