ID 718385
Lot 896 | A BLUE-OVERLAY 'SNOWSTORM' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
1750-1850
The bottle is carved on one side with a scaly dragon rising from crested waves in pursuit of a flaming pearl. The reverse is carved with a fan-tailed fish wrestling a crab above further waves from which a turtle and a toad appear.
2 9⁄16 in. (6.5 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Bob C. Stevens Collection, no. 1001.
Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part I; Sotheby’s Honolulu, 7 November 1981, lot 12.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York
Literature
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 1001.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, p.26-27, no. 2.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Bob C. Stevens Collection, 22-31 October 1978, cat. no. 37.
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