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Lot 1195
A group of three snuff bottles
28 July 2009, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$396.50 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA group of three snuff bottles
The first a porcelain bottle finely glazed in black mottled with brown alteration; the second a lac burgauté, finely inlaid against a black lacquer background with colored mother-of-pearl, forming a central blossom surrounded by repetitive patterns; the third a bamboo bottle inlaid with two oval-shaped ivory panels, one with a long inscription written in black, the other painted with a leafy flower.
4 to 6cm high
4 to 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. 47, no. P-110, p. 129, no. O-94, and p. 10, no. O-54














