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Snuff Bottles

Property from the Collection of Margaret Polak
Lot 6143

A purple translucent glass bottle
19th Century

23 August 2010, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

US$1,000 - US$1,500

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A purple translucent glass bottle

19th Century
Of compressed ovoid form with a wide mouth, straight lip and a flat bottom enclosed in an oval footrim, finely carved to the front and back with a mallow flower, a pair of mock lion-mask and ring handles on the sides, pink glass stopper with black vinyl collar.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Arts of China, June, 1990

Exhibited:
Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia, 1991

Illustrated:
Hidden Treasures of the Dragon (1991), cat. no. 114

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