Lot Essay
Compare to a similar bottle from the A Collection illustrated by Clare Chu in Chinese Snuff Bottles from Southern Californian Collectors, Hong Kong, 2016, p. 63.
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YANGZHOU, DATED RENWU (1882)
Details
AN OLIVE-BROWN OVERLAY WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
YANGZHOU, DATED RENWU (1882)
The bottle is delicately carved through the semi-translucent olive-brown overlay with a continuous scene of birds and flowering branches on the opaque, white ground above rocks carved at the bottom. One side has an archaistic inscription carved in cameo with an auspicious saying about evergreens and longevity.
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, glass stopper
YANGZHOU, DATED RENWU (1882)
The bottle is delicately carved through the semi-translucent olive-brown overlay with a continuous scene of birds and flowering branches on the opaque, white ground above rocks carved at the bottom. One side has an archaistic inscription carved in cameo with an auspicious saying about evergreens and longevity.
2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Baroness Jacobea Sapuppo, Italy.
Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York, 2001.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3097.
Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York, 2001.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3097.
Exhibited
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
Brought to you by
Andrew Lick