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  • Glass

  • Flattened circular

  • Snuff bottle with flat mouth rim, slightly convex foot surrounded by a flattened foot ring, carved through the ruby-red glass to the bubble-suffused snowflake ground to depict squirrels amidst scrolling grape vines.



Period

  • 1740 - 1790



Size

  • Height cm. 6.2
  • Mouth cm. 0.7
  • Lip cm. 1.7



Stopper

  • Jadeite with black vinyl ring



Provenance

  • Bonhams, London - 13 May 2010 - Lot 45



Exhibited

  • Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011



Comparison

  • Robert Hall - "Chinese Snuff Bottles XI - The Snowy Peaks Collection formed by Pamela R. Lessing Friedman" - No. 35

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