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Property from the Barbara and Marvin Dicker Collection of Snuff Bottles
Lot 7163
A black overlaid on white glass snuff bottle 1780-1850
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
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A black overlaid on white glass snuff bottle
1780-1850
Of compressed globular form with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, the applied black overlay creating an intriguing silhouette effect on a milky ground, sensitively carved around the walls with exquisite details to portray an elderly scholar and his assistant carrying a qin as they cross a bridge to visit a scholar on the reverse, seated by a desk near an open window of a house in the shade of a pine issuing behind pierced rocks while his servant prepares tea in the courtyard, all above the well-finished oval foot rim.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
Of compressed globular form with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, the applied black overlay creating an intriguing silhouette effect on a milky ground, sensitively carved around the walls with exquisite details to portray an elderly scholar and his assistant carrying a qin as they cross a bridge to visit a scholar on the reverse, seated by a desk near an open window of a house in the shade of a pine issuing behind pierced rocks while his servant prepares tea in the courtyard, all above the well-finished oval foot rim.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dennis Crow, acquired 1992
Exhibited:
Norton Museum of Art, Florida, September - November 1997
Published:
Dennis G. Crow Ltd., A Catalogue of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 1992, No. 6














