Asian Art I - 21st May 2014

Lot 3

A Chinese interior-painted glass snuff bottle 19th or 20th century

Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £250

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Description

A Chinese interior-painted glass snuff bottle 19th or 20th century, depicting flowering chrysanthemum and small birds perched on blue rockwork, the stopper blue glass, 9.5cm.

Provenance: Lt Col John Grenville Fortescue (1896-1969), of Dropmore, Buckinghamshire and Boconnoc, Cornwall, and thence by descent.