Two snuff bottles Qing dynasty, 19th century

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION NEW SOUTH WALES

comprising a red overlay snuff bottle with a shaped quatrefoil medallion and mask handles in relief on the snowflake suffused ground, stopper; and a porcelain snuff bottle painted in sepia and iron-red with birds on slender leafy stems, and flowers and dragonfly on the reverse, stopper en suite, wood stands

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5.4 cm high, 6.4 cm high overall

• Lot Sold $8,500 (Hammer Price)
• $10,370 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

P.C. Lu & Sons Ltd., Hong Kong, the glass snuff bottle, 2 October 1981; Hugh Moss, London, the porcelain snuff bottle, 1 April 1977

Condition Report

Red overlay bottle - some frits to mouth rim, the spoon missing from the stopper.
Porcelain bottle - very small chip on the edge of the side just above the foot.

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