A BLACK-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
This lot is offered without reserve.
A BLACK-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

1780-1860

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A BLACK-OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1780-1860
The bottle is carved through the opaque black overlay to the opaque white ground with a deer on one side and a crane on the other. Each grasps a lingzhi sprig in its mouth beside further lingzhi growing from rocks, a bat suspending a peach is on each narrow side.
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2917.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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