Two Chinese Glass Snuff Bottles,18th Century and Later

Probably 18th Century and Later

Comprising an amber-red bottle of flattened spherical form, with some crizzling, iron-red decorated porcelain stopper button; a gold spangled sapphire blue bottle with coral glass stopper button.

Height of taller, including stopper 2 3/8 in., 6 cm.

Property from a Private Collection, Pennsylvania.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

The blue bottle: Estate of Jean Perkins Stuart, Beverly Hills, California, sold Bonhams & Butterfield October 25, 2004, lot 1133.

Freeman's Philadelphia, September 7, 2018, lot 245.

Property from a private collection, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above

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Two Chinese Glass Snuff Bottles,18th Century and Later

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