AN ENAMELED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

Lot 809
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ID 718500
Lot 809 | AN ENAMELED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
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$ 20 000 – 30 000
AN ENAMELED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

WANG XISAN, BEIJING, 1964

The bottle is decorated overall with lushly flowering peach branches bearing two large, ripe fruit on either side, all set on a yellow ground beneath a blue key-fret band on the neck. The base has an apocryphal Qianlong mark.

2 1⁄8 in. (5.5 cm.) high, bronze stopper







Provenance

Bob C. Stevens Collection, no. 1029.

The Bob C. Stevens Collection of Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part II; Sotheby’s New York, 26 March 1982, lot 77.

Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.





Literature

H. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles Number Four, London, 1966, p. 41, color pl. M.

B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 1029.

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 72-73, no. 23.





Exhibited

Tokyo, Mikimoto Hall, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles From The Bob C. Stevens Collection, 22-31 October 1978, cat. no. 370.
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