Lot Essay
A nearly identical bottle was sold in Snuff Bottles from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection Part I, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June 2021, lot 1074.
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1800-1880
Details
A BLACK AND WHITE-OVERLAY BLUE AND WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
1800-1880
The flattened ovoid bottle is carved on one side with a pair of egrets beneath two lotus flowers, and on the reverse with a Pekingese dog seated next to two doves on a rock with a chrysanthemum flower to one side.
2 3⁄4 in. (6.9 cm.) high, glass stopper
1800-1880
The flattened ovoid bottle is carved on one side with a pair of egrets beneath two lotus flowers, and on the reverse with a Pekingese dog seated next to two doves on a rock with a chrysanthemum flower to one side.
2 3⁄4 in. (6.9 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Julie and Al Stempel Collection.
PB Eighty-Four, New York, 11 October 1979, lot 11.
Rolli Herman Collection, 1981.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
PB Eighty-Four, New York, 11 October 1979, lot 11.
Rolli Herman Collection, 1981.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 122-123, no. 48.
Exhibited
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Snuff Bottles, 15 October-26 November 1977, cat. no. 21.
Brought to you by
Margaret Gristina (葛曼琪)
Senior Specialist, VP