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A Chinese blue glass snuff bottle with mother-of-pearl inlays,…
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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
22-Mar-2015
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Description:
A Chinese blue glass snuff bottle with mother-of-pearl inlays, The bottle late Qing dynasty Inlays probably in mid 20th century in Japan 7.8 cm. Provenance: Purchased at. Y.F. Yang & Company in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Hong Kong See another very similar example with mother-of-pearl on an old moss-agate snuff bottle, formerly in the Edmund F. Dwyer Collection, Los Angeles, and subsequently sold at Christie's London, 12 October 1987, lot 195, illustrated by L.S Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Adventures & Studies of a Collector, Rutland and Tokyo, 1960 p. 146, fig. 159. This style of embellishment is more commonly seen on glass bottles, see a transparent glass example formerly in the Gerry P. Mack collection, sold at Sotheby's New York, 25 October 1997, lot 3. See also a mother-of-pearl-embellished blue glass snuff bottle in the Bloch collection, illustrated by H. Moss, V. Graham and K. B. Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol.7, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 478-9, no. 1671, and another formerly in the collection of Arthur Loveless illustrated y J. G. Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles. The Edward Choat O'Dell Collection, Baltimore, 1982, Catalogue no. 138. Y.F. Yang & Company
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Category:
Oriental: Snuff Bottles