Lot 117
  • 117

A CINNABAR-RED OVERLAY CARAMEL-BEIGE GLASS 'THREE GOATS' SNUFF BOTTLE YANGZHOU, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
110,000 - 150,000 HKD
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Description

  • glass

Provenance

Christie's London, 7th June 1993, lot 195.

Exhibited

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, British Museum, London, 1995, cat. no. 182.
Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997.

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. 1015.

Condition

Minute chip to the outer lip. One miniscule chip to the the tip of the horn of the goat lying down. A couple ofa tiny air bubbles burst to the surface.
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