Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 October 2017
Jewellery, Watches, European and Oriental Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
About this Item
A Chinese inside-painted glass snuff bottle, late 19th/early 20th century
the front painted with a phoenix amongst chrysanthemums, the reverse painted with a panda, bamboo and blossom, the shoulders carved with yellow mask-and-ring handles, yellow-line borders, raised on an oval footrim, 5,7cm high; and a Chinese blue-glass overlay snuff bottle, carved through the blue overlay with contesting dragons above stylised waves, raised on an oval footrim, the neck with metal collar, 6,5cm high
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