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Property from the Bentley Collection, London, United Kingdom
Lot 7198
Two amber glass snuff bottles 1750-1860
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoUS$2,000 - US$3,000
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Two amber glass snuff bottles
1750-1860
Each of compressed globular form, supported on a finely finished oval foot ring, the first with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, the semi-transparent amber ground suffused with striking black inclusions imitating tortoise shell; the second surmounted with two raised faux lion mask-and-ring handles, its gently waisted neck wrapped with vertical plantain leaves, the lower section of the bottle encased by a veined lotus leaf with carefully detailed, rolled edges.
2 and 2 1/4in (5.1 and 5.7cm) high
Each of compressed globular form, supported on a finely finished oval foot ring, the first with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, the semi-transparent amber ground suffused with striking black inclusions imitating tortoise shell; the second surmounted with two raised faux lion mask-and-ring handles, its gently waisted neck wrapped with vertical plantain leaves, the lower section of the bottle encased by a veined lotus leaf with carefully detailed, rolled edges.
2 and 2 1/4in (5.1 and 5.7cm) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
left hand bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
Clare Lawrence Ltd.
the Alexander Brody Collection
right hand bottle, the Bentley Collection, U.K.
C.Y.Tse, Hong Kong, 1987
Illustrated:
left hand bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 24, Clare Lawrence, The Alexander Brody Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1995, p.85, NO.135
right hand bottle, Asian Art Studio, Inc., The Bentley Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, 2008, p. 18