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Lot 1194

A group of four snuff bottles

28 July 2009, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$732 inc. premium

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A group of four snuff bottles

Incuding a dark green hardstone bottle in the form of a fish, an apple green hardstone bottle carved with two lions in a playful mode chasing a ball, the third a sardony bottle with a deep grayish blue sheen, carved with birds and flowers on both sides in relief; the fourth a plain brown crystal bottle in a rectangular shape; all with stoppers.
5.5 to 6.8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance: formerly in the collection of Harriet Hamilton, a decendent of Claus Spreckels

Three bottles published & illustrated: Hamilton, Harriet Halbrook, Oriental Snuff Bottles, Palo Alto, Mayfield Pub., 1977, p. 35, no. J-62, P. 51, no. S-29, and p. 63, no. Q-26

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