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Four Chinese Snuff Bottles and One Small Snuff Dish
Estimate: $700-$900
Sold
$400
Timed Auction
Interiors - Featuring Asian Decorative Art
Location
Philadelphia
Size
Diameter (Snuff dish) 1 16/13 in., 4.7 cm; Height (palm nut snuff bottle) 3 1/8 in., 8cm
Description

Four Chinese Snuff Bottles and One Small Snuff Dish

Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)


Comprising a lime green glazed porcelain molded 'dragon' bottle, molded mark to underside; an incised palm nut snuff bottle with micro calligraphy to one side, acrobats to the other; an incised organic snuff bottle with one face decorated with a dancer, the reverse with two archaistic characters; a cloisonné enamel snuff bottle decorated on both sides with phoenix; and a Canton enamel circular snuff dish with the front painted with two boys underneath pine trees, the reverse bearing a Qianlong four-character blue enameled mark.


Diameter (Snuff dish) 1 16/13 in., 4.7 cm; Height (palm nut snuff bottle) 3 1/8 in., 8cm


Property from the Collection of Jay R. Butterman, New York, New York


This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Condition
All with soiling and abrasions, the coconut shell snuff bottle crack to center, rubbing to painting on snuff dish and cloisonne. Stopper to lime snuff later, lacking spoon
Provenance
Provenance:incised palm nut bottle-Eldred's, Massachusetts, August 26, 2005.lime green bottle-E&J Frankelsnuff dish-E&J Frankel, November 27, 1999The Collection of Jay R. Butterman (E&J Frankel's attorney), New York, New York, acquired from above.
Quantity
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