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1800-1880
Details
TWO RED-OVERLAY TRANSPARENT GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
1800-1880
The first is carved through the transparent red overlay to the bubble-suffused ground with a sash decorated with flowering prunus and with a flying bat at the side on the bubble-infused ground. The second is carved through the transparent red overlay to the pale blue ground with the Eight Horses of Muwang.
2 and 2 5/8 in. (5.1 and 6.7 cm.) high, glass stoppers
1800-1880
The first is carved through the transparent red overlay to the bubble-suffused ground with a sash decorated with flowering prunus and with a flying bat at the side on the bubble-infused ground. The second is carved through the transparent red overlay to the pale blue ground with the Eight Horses of Muwang.
2 and 2 5/8 in. (5.1 and 6.7 cm.) high, glass stoppers
Provenance
First bottle:
Alice McReynolds Collection.
Lawrence and Florence Bier Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2004, lot 232 (part).
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5006.
Second bottle:
Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5207.
Alice McReynolds Collection.
Lawrence and Florence Bier Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2004, lot 232 (part).
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5006.
Second bottle:
Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5207.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.