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Lot 1191
Two metal snuff bottles Late Qing/Early Republic Period
28 July 2009, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$488 inc. premium
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Late Qing/Early Republic Period
The first a dual-layered baitong bottle, the outer layer designed with eight lions chasing brocade balls, reticulated to reveal the plain inner bottle, the details of the lions finely defined with incised lines, the surfaces with traces of gilt paint, matching original stopper; the second of flattened baluster shape, designed on each main side with exquisite, classic lotus flower and scroll motifs utilizing thin wires forming borders filled with enamels, the side shoulders inlaid with stone and glass beads, stopper.
7.4 and 6cm high
The first a dual-layered baitong bottle, the outer layer designed with eight lions chasing brocade balls, reticulated to reveal the plain inner bottle, the details of the lions finely defined with incised lines, the surfaces with traces of gilt paint, matching original stopper; the second of flattened baluster shape, designed on each main side with exquisite, classic lotus flower and scroll motifs utilizing thin wires forming borders filled with enamels, the side shoulders inlaid with stone and glass beads, stopper.
7.4 and 6cm high
Footnotes
Provenance: formerly in the collection of Harriet Hamilton, a decendent of Claus Spreckels
Published & Illustrated: Hamilton, Harriet Halbrook, Oriental Snuff Bottles, Palo Alto, Mayfield Pub., 1977, p. 45, no. M-1, M-16














