THREE ENAMELED SNUFF BOTTLES
This lot is offered without reserve.
THREE ENAMELED SNUFF BOTTLES

1770-1920

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THREE ENAMELED SNUFF BOTTLES
1770-1920
The first porcelain bottle, Jingdezhen kilns, 1880-1920, is enameled with figural scenes and bears an apocryphal four-character Qianlong mark on the base. The second, Jingdezhen kilns, 1820-1860, is a porcelain bottle with enameled green katydids on a coffee-tone ground. The third bottle, Imperial, Yangzhou, 1770-1820, is of milky-white glass decorated in polychrome enamels with a rustic school on one side and a scholar with two attendants on the other, the foot inscribed in red with Guyue xuan (Ancient Moon Pavilion) in standard script.
2 ¼ , 3 1/8 and 1 ¾ in. (5.7, 8 and 4.5 cm.) high, glass and quartz stoppers
Provenance
First bottle:
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 March 1993, lot 158.
Robert Hall, London, 2012.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5346.
Second bottle:
Hartman Rare Art, New York.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2010.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5102.
Third bottle:
Lawrence Souks, Paris.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4914.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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