A PURPLE-OVERLAY 'SNOWFLAKE' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
This lot is offered without reserve.
A PURPLE-OVERLAY 'SNOWFLAKE' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1800-1880

Details
A PURPLE-OVERLAY 'SNOWFLAKE' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1880
The bottle is carved through the transparent dark purple glass overlay to the semi-opaque white ground on one side with squirrels climbing on a grape vine, the reverse with a pod-hung vine growing from rocks.
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high, quartz stopper
Provenance
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2005.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4221.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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