Robert Hall - Snuff Bottle

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Robert HallChinese Snuff bottles HallChinese Snuff bottles HallAcknowledgementsAuthor: susan PagePhotography: Robert hall Photographytranslation: Paul BevanProduced by: Asia marketing HallSerendipitycHinese Snuff bottles XViitem 1 - 6123456glass, blue overlay on a semi-opaque ground carved with gnarled and curling flowering prunus branch, begonia, iris and , 1780-1850Height: 6cmProvenance: the kobacker collection, floridaglass, translucent blue carved from a solid block, each edge carved with chilong whose tails curl round to form the , 1736-1795Height: , blue overlay on clear crizzled glass , carved with a fish on its back with two bubbles above, the reverse with a crab with fierce looking pincers and twobubbles above, the protruding footrim also carved from the , 18th centuryHeight: , opaque white with blue overlay finely carved in low relief with a peony spray, prunus

glass, single overlay of blue on a snowstorm ground carved on one side with a leaping carp exhaling a cloud of vapour upon which rests a pavilion, a crane carrying

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