Snuff Bottles From A German Private Collection
Snuff Bottles From A German Private Collection
A Black and White Double-Overlay Turquoise-Blue Glass 'Figures and Sampan' Snuff Bottle Qing Dynasty, 18th - 19th Century | 清十八至十九世紀 藍地套黑白料人物圖鼻煙壺
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February 10, 02:17 AM GMT
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20,000 - 30,000 HKD
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A Black and White Double-Overlay Turquoise-Blue Glass 'Figures and Sampan' Snuff Bottle
Qing Dynasty, 18th - 19th Century
清十八至十九世紀 藍地套黑白料人物圖鼻煙壺
with pink tourmaline stopper
h. 6.7 cm
C.K. Liang, Jade House, Hong Kong, 15th March 1984 (HKD28,000).
梁宗亢，中易公司，香港，1984年3月15日（港幣28,000）
Glass snuff bottles created with double overlays required considerable skill and precision, and resulted in vivid three dimensionality.
A closely related example of this rare group illustrated in Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5: Glass, Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 680-681, no. 1003, was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 27th May 2012, lot 7. See also another double-overlay glass snuff bottle included in the exhibition Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, pp. 27 & 123, pl. 18, and sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 24th November 2012, lot 24, from the collection of Paul Braga.