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Lot 7194
A red overlaid 'snowflake' glass snuff bottle 1800-1880
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoUS$2,000 - US$3,000
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A red overlaid 'snowflake' glass snuff bottle
1800-1880
Well-hollowed, of compressed globular form with a very subtly waisted neck, flat lip, wide oval foot ring, the bubble-suffused ground applied with cranberry-red overlay carved around the walls to portray a placid lotus pond with a catfish and an egret, some details rendered with carefully incised lines.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
Well-hollowed, of compressed globular form with a very subtly waisted neck, flat lip, wide oval foot ring, the bubble-suffused ground applied with cranberry-red overlay carved around the walls to portray a placid lotus pond with a catfish and an egret, some details rendered with carefully incised lines.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Roger Tsui, Hong Kong 1988
Illustrated:
Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 42














