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A RED-OVERLAY 'SNOWSTORM' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1750-1850
The bottle is carved on one side with a tiger crouching on a rock beneath a pine tree, its long tail rising through the center of the scene, with a bat flying to one side, and all above a band of waves that continues around the bottle. The reverse is carved with a writhing dragon amidst clouds.
2 7⁄8 in. (7.2 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Lilla S. Perry Collection, California.
Rolli Herman Collection.
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1981.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
H. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p.109, no. 204.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 166-167, no. 70.

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