ID 718426
Lot 851 | A CINNABAR-RED AND GREEN-OVERLAY 'SNOWSTORM' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
1750-1820
Of flattened rounded shape, the bottle is carved on one side with orchids and with leafy bamboo stalks on the other. A lingzhi plant issues from rocks on one narrow side with a fluttering butterfly opposite.
2 1⁄8 in. (5.5 cm.) high, amber stopper
Provenance
Edward Choate O'Dell Collection.
Janos Szekeres Collection, Connecticut.
Sotheby's New York, 27 October 1986, lot 41.
Ashkenazi & Co., San Francisco, 1988.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.
Literature
J. Ford, Catalogue of the Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, Baltimore, 1982, no. 128.
JICSBS, Autumn 1988, fig. 6.
R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 248-249, no. 108.
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Category: | Scent bottle |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
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| Category: | Scent bottle |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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