In the Studio: Asian Art Featuring Works from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

In the Studio: Asian Art Featuring Works from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

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Three overlay glass snuff bottles, Qing dynasty | 清 套料鼻烟壺一組三件

Lot Closed

September 28, 03:17 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Three overlay glass snuff bottles

Qing dynasty

清 套料鼻烟壺一組三件


comprising a blue-overlay white glass 'eagle and bear' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 19th century; a black-overlay white glass 'hundred antiques' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 19th century; and a polychrome-overlay white glass 'lotus pond' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, stoppers (6)


Height of tallest 2⅝ in., 6.7 cm

The blue-overlay and black-overlay snuff bottles:

Collection of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) and Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971), and thence by descent.


The polychrome-overlay snuff bottle:

Collection of Frederick Moore, acquired in Beijing before 1917.

Anderson Galleries, New York, 29th-31st March 1917, lot 19.

Collection of Kenyon V. Painter, Sr. (1867-1940) and Maud Wyeth Painter (1885-1971), and thence by descent.