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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 16, 2016 | Christie's | New York | The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part II | 572 | $****** - ****** | TWO OVERLAY MILKY-WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES |
sculpture
Glass
First bottle:<br/>Robert Hall, London, 2009.<br/>Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4993.<br/>Second bottle:<br/>Robert Hall, London, 2011.<br/>Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5192.<br/>
Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles XIV, Irish Mist, no. 62, p. 46 (first bottle).<br/>Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles XV, no. 74 (second bottle).<br/>
The first bottle is carved through the opaque deep cinnabar-red overlay on one side with a cat and a butterfly beside a blossoming peony on a rootwood stand, the reverse with three long-tailed birds and two bats surrounding a bird swooping around a blossoming prunus, and with mask-and-ring handles on the narrow sides. The second bottle is carved through the pale brown overlay in low relief on one side with a long-tailed bird perched on a gnarled branch above rockwork surrounded by bats, the reverse with a sampan, a pavilion and trees, with an inscription above which reads, fang Nantian zuo ('made after [the painting style of] Nantian [Yun Shouping]'), and the narrow sides with mask-and-ring handles.