A European private collection of snuff bottles (lots 319-333)






An overlay glass 'pomegranate' snuff bottle and a red overlay glass 'ladies' snuff bottle


18th/19th centuryThe first frosted red glass bottle formed as a ripe pomegranate, carved in relief with the seeds and leafy tendrils, stopper; the second frosted translucent white glass bottle with two beauties, one holding a fan, the other a floral sprig, with beast mask handles, stopper; together with a yellow glass basket-weave bottle, 19th/20th century, stopper.The largest: 5.5cm (2 1/8in) high (6).
|Compare the pomegranate-form bottle to a double-overlay example in the Mary & George Bloch collection, Part VIII, Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26 May 2014, lot 1179.