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1780-1900
Details
TWO OVERLAY GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
1780-1900
The first unusual bottle, 1780-1840, is carved through the translucent pink overlay to the clear glass ground with two chilong chasing a pearl. The second, 1800-1900, is carved through the opaque black overlay to the transparent bubble-suffused ground with a tethered hawk on one side and a dog tied to a post on the reverse.
2 5/8 and 2 ½ in. (6.1 and 6.4 cm.) high, glass stoppers
1780-1900
The first unusual bottle, 1780-1840, is carved through the translucent pink overlay to the clear glass ground with two chilong chasing a pearl. The second, 1800-1900, is carved through the opaque black overlay to the transparent bubble-suffused ground with a tethered hawk on one side and a dog tied to a post on the reverse.
2 5/8 and 2 ½ in. (6.1 and 6.4 cm.) high, glass stoppers
Provenance
First bottle: Margaret Prescott Wise Collection.
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4954.
Second bottle: Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4964.
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4954.
Second bottle: Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4964.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.