A Chinese inside-painted glass snuff bottle, early 20th century
Continental & Oriental Silver, Furniture and Decorative Arts including a Collection of Italian Glass
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Selling Price
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ZAR 27 284
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A Chinese inside-painted glass snuff bottle, early 20th century
compressed spherical, painted with shaped panels of fish, a small boy astride a buffalo, a cockerel and a grasshopper, raised on a low footrim, one side with reduced area, 16cm high; and another example, painted with a figure astride a donkey to one side and a group discussing a man up a tree to the other, 7,2cm high
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