Objects of Desire: A European private collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Lots 98-146
An emerald green clear glass snuff bottle and a bi-colour glass snuff bottle
1750-1800 and 1820-1880The first of compressed rounded form, set on a flattened oval footrim, stopper; the second of flattened ovoid form, with countersunk base, the bi-colour glass of pale sapphire and citrus yellow hue, stopper.5.6cm. (2.1/4in) and 4.6cm. high. (4).
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Objects of Desire: A European private collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Lots 98-146The green glass bottle:Illustrated: Clare Lawrence, The Alexander Brody Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, p.73, no.111The Bi-colour glass bottle:Provenance: Honeychurch Antiques, Hong Kong, 1st February 1992