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1700-1800
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TWO 'REALGAR' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
1700-1800
The flattened ovoid bottle is streaked with unusual green and yellow horizontal banding on a mottled reddish-orange ground. The high-shouldered bottle is decorated with scattered green markings on a mottled red and orange ground.
2 5/8 and 2 ½ in. (6.8 and 6.3 cm.), jadeite and agate stoppers
1700-1800
The flattened ovoid bottle is streaked with unusual green and yellow horizontal banding on a mottled reddish-orange ground. The high-shouldered bottle is decorated with scattered green markings on a mottled red and orange ground.
2 5/8 and 2 ½ in. (6.8 and 6.3 cm.), jadeite and agate stoppers
Provenance
Green-streaked bottle:
Robert Hall, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4992.
Green-marked bottle:
Dennis G. Crow Ltd., Los Angeles, California, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1266.
Robert Hall, London, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4992.
Green-marked bottle:
Dennis G. Crow Ltd., Los Angeles, California, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1266.
Literature
R. Hall, Irish Mist, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIV, p. 12, no. 11 (green-streaked bottle).
Exhibited
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008 (green-marked bottle).
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Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not
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outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature
(e.g., a string).
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