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A Chinese black-overlay bubble-suffused glass snuff bottle,…
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Melbourne
Date:
12-Dec-2018
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Description:
A Chinese black-overlay bubble-suffused glass snuff bottle, 18th/19th century, a black-overlay snuff bottle finely carved to depict a pine tree springing out of rocks with lingzhi fungus, with a clear amber red glass stopper, possibly original. Together with an exceptionally finely carved amber-overlay snuff bottle depicting a carp to one side and a crane amidst lotus and grasses, an Australian collection of Chinese works of art, the black snuff bottle 6.8 cm high, the amber 5.5 cm high,
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Category:
Oriental: Snuff Bottles