Lot 182
  • 182

A WHITE OVERLAY PINK GLASS 'POND SCENE' SNUFF BOTTLE QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 HKD
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Description

  • Glass
together with a watercolour illustration by Peter Suart

Provenance

Collection of Julie and Al Stempel.
Sotheby’s New York, 11th October 1979, lot 19.
Collection of Alice B. McReynolds.
Sotheby’s Los Angeles, 31st October 1984, lot 34.

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. 969.

Condition

One minute chip to the plant stem to the left of the smaller carp. A very fine line in the taller plant stem to the right of the same carp. Otherwise, good workshop conditon.
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