Lot 64
  • 64

AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE YE ZHONGSAN, TENTH MONTH, 1906

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 HKD
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Description

  • Crystal

Provenance

Hugh M. Moss Ltd., circa 1972.
Collection of S.C. Harris.
Robert Hall, London, 1984.

Exhibited

Christie's London, 1999.

Literature

Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 4, Hong Kong, 2000, no. 529.

Condition

Bottle: Surface scratches from wear and one barely perceptible chip on one of the elongated edges. Painting: Very minor fading to the grass below the rear ends of the horses, otherwise good condition.
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