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Lot 243

Sale 2079 - Asian Works of Art
Jun 26, 2025 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$600 - 800
Price Realized
$384
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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Four Inside Painted Glass Snuff Bottles, 20th Century
近代 玻璃內畫鼻煙壺四支
20th Century

One with portrait of Rabindranath Tagore and his biography verso, made in Jiazi Year winter; the second with two portraits, signed Liu Ziyi; two miniature bottles decorated with figural scenes; one with a martial general possibly Guan Yunchang, the other painted with a group of ladies studying, with the inscription of "The Daughters of Former Slaves Taking Power", both with glass stoppers.
Overall height of tallest 3 1/4 in., 8.3 cm.

Property from the Collection of Albert Combatalade, thence by descent.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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