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Lot 553Y

FIVE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
Qing Dynasty

12 – 19 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £460.80 inc. premium

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FIVE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES

Qing Dynasty
Comprising: a ruby red glass bottle; a pale pink and white bottle; a translucent pink snuff bottle; a bubble-suffused yellow glass bottle with swirling red inclusion and a grey-overlay white bottle carved with antique treasures on one side and a boy making tea on the reverse.
6.5cm (2 5/8in) high (9).

Footnotes

清 料胎鼻煙壺一組五件

Provenance:
The pale pink and white bottle:
Robert Hall, 3 April 1990 (invoice)
Marian Mayer Collection

The transparent pink bottle:
Robert Hall, 3 August 1990 (invoice)

The Yangzhou bottle:
Robert Hall, 19 November 1998 (invoice)

The bubble suffused glass bottle:
Robert Hall, 10 September 1993 (invoice)
Lionel Copley collection

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The bubble suffused glass bottle: Robert Hall: Chinese Snuff Bottles VI, from the Collection of Lionel Copley, 1994, no 43.

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