Lot 122
  • 122

A CUT-GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE LATE QING DYNASTY / EARLY REPUBLICAN PERIOD

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 HKD
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Description

  • glass

Provenance

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th October 1992, lot 360.

Exhibited

Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang, and Clarence F. Shangraw, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 72.
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 1994-1995.

Literature

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 863.

Condition

Minute chip to the rim of the circular panel, towards the bottom. Otherwise good condition. Note: Stopper is not the same one as in Teasury 5.
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