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A red overlaid 'snowflake' glass snuff bottle 19th century image 1
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Property from the Collection of Frank and Georgia James
Lot 8086

A red overlaid 'snowflake' glass snuff bottle
19th century

16 December 2014, 10:00 PST
San Francisco

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A red overlaid 'snowflake' glass snuff bottle

19th century
Well-hollowed, of compressed globular form, with a waisted neck, flat and relatively thin rim, worked with cranberry-red overlay carved with the sun rising from crashing waves and a bat in flight amid cloud scrolls, the opposing side featuring an eagle atop rocks between soaring mountain peaks at narrower sides, all above a short, slightly splayed oval foot ring.
2 1/8in (5.3cm) high

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