Sold for $2,016

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Lot Description

Seven Chinese Snuff Bottles

Late 19th-Mid 20th Century

comprising three porcelain examples, a cinnabar lacquer example, an inside painted example, a blue and white porcelain example, and a carved mother of pearl example.

Height of tallest 3 1/8 in., 8 cm.

Property from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bernenko, New York, New York

Provenance:
The double porcelain example acquired from C. Barrett & Co., London, June 20, 1967;
the famille-rose of eighteen Buddha example comes with the certificate of antiquity by Chinese Antique Dealers Association (Hong Kong), April 1982;
the cylindrical example acquired from Francis S. Sakamaki Co., San Francisco, January, 1967;
the flattened globular peking glass acquired from C. Barrett & Co., London, June 20, 1967.

Condition Report

The double bottle with some chipping at the feet, the lacquer example having loss at the shoulder, the underglaze blue cylindrical bottle with a restoration at the neck, stopper stuck inside the bottle, the stopper stuck inside the mother of pearl example.

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