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Property from the Barbara and Marvin Dicker Collection of Snuff Bottles
Lot 7168

A rock crystal clock face snuff bottle
1750-1860

Fine Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A rock crystal clock face snuff bottle

1750-1860
Superbly well-hollowed, the rounded rectangular bottle supported by a neatly finished oval foot ring, its cylindrical neck decorated with a carefully incised key-fret band surrounding a thin and recessed lip, carved and relief and incised with a with a clock face on each side, one incised with Roman numerals and the other with Chinese numerals, the narrow sides surmounted with two raised animal mask-and-ring handles; the transparent stone with limited fissure lines.
2 3/8in (6cm) high

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Provenance:
Asiantiques, acquired 14 October 1995 New York Armory Show
Sam Denham, Florida

Exhibited:
Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, 1990

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