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  • Glass

  • Flattened circular

  • Five-color overlay carved with prunus, begonias, peonies, and orchids in red, yellow, blue, turquoise and green glass.



Period

  • 1760 - 1840



Size

  • Height cm. 5.8
  • Mouth cm. 0.7
  • Lip cm. 1.5



Stopper

  • Tourmaline with gilt collar



Provenance

  • Dennis Crow Ltd. Los Angeles
  • Collection of Ann & John Hamilton (no. 120)
  • Sotheby's, New York, 27 March 2003, Lot 240
  • Sotheby's New York - 23 March 2004 - Lot 289



Exhibited

  • 41st Convention I.C.S.B.S., Dublin, October 2009
  • Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011



Published

  • Journal of ICSBS - Volume XXXVI, Number 1 - Spring 2004 - p. 240 - column 1, line 12: Christopher C.H. Sin about this snuff bottle
  • Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 6, p. 11

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