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Lot 558

Three Copper-Red, Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles Height of tallest 3 1/4 inches. — 19TH CENTURY

Lot 558

Three Copper-Red, Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles Height of tallest 3 1/4 inches.

19TH CENTURY

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $500 - $700

Estimate$500 – $700

Status

Closed

Three Copper-Red, Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottles Height of tallest 3 1/4 inches.

19TH CENTURY

each is of tall cylindrical form, the first depicting a folk story, green and yellow glass stopper, the second depicting a fisherman on a boat, underside bearing an apocryphal Yongzheng four-character mark, brown aventurine glass stopper, the third depicting three Taoist Immortals, underside bearing an apocryphal Qianlong six-character mark, glass and metal stopper.

Height of tallest 3 1/4 inches.

Height of tallest 8.3cm Some fracturing around the mouth rim of the tallest example, cracking to the glaze on metal-stoppered example.

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Annie Wu

Senior Vice President, Head of Department, Asian Art

anniewu@freemansauction.com 312.447.3260

Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.