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Three Chinese monochrome glass snuff bottles, 5.8 cm, 6.2 cm, 6.…
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Three Chinese monochrome glass snuff bottles, 5.8 cm, 6.2 cm, 6.8 cm high (3). Provenance: Singapore private collection. The rare shape of the blue bottle is a model of the cricket cages much in use during the second half of the Qing dynasty to house the fighting crickets with which all sections of society were obsessed. The collar has been applied separately, in a reference to the applied ivory collars of the originals
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Oriental: Snuff Bottles