(lot of 2) Chinese Peking glass snuff bottles, the first of dark cobalt blue with stone overlay, 1850-1940, the flattened ovoid body embellished bamboo and rockwork in opal, turquoise, carnelian and mother-of-pearl, with a green hardstone stopper, 2.5''; the second a five-color overlay glass snuff bottle, 19th/20th century, of flattened ovoid form with sloping shoulders and carved with fruiting gourds of blue, red, pink, light blue and yellow color issuing from a leafy green vine on a bubble-suffused colorless glass ground and resting on a dark green oval ring foot, with a green stopper, 2.125''h; Provenance: Estate of Dennis Irish, Oregon
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Outstanding October Auction (470)
10:00 AM PT - Oct 12th, 2008
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Clars Auction Gallery
5644 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94609
Oakland, CA 94609



